@OmegaKrypton OMEGA KRYPTON ~ PORK MET AGONY

More proof of your boariness according to your profile :)

wow

or how about OMEGA KRYPTON ~ YET AMONG PORK

nice

@jafe Hint for the C4? I have a feeling it's blindingly obvious, but I'm just not getting it...

cccc hint: sixth letter is Z

was just typing that :)

Well that certainly makes it easier, not a lot of 6 letter words that end in Z

@jafe I think it's SHIRAZ, ddef "Home of many Persians" (city in Iran) and "red" (red wine varietal)

Woohoo, right on the dot!

that's correct

congrats :)

Slowly inching my way to 10k...

I got this really topical one that is probably too flippant for the main room, hopefully I won't get in trouble for posting it here

CCCC: Start complying with new CoC: essentially, xe is most important (3)

To the StackExchange overlords: Please have mercy on me...

hah, nice

hoping to solve it before they bring out ye olde bannhammre

doubtful but sort of works... C_+N+_O_, short for Chief of Naval Operations, the US navy's highest-ranking (most important) officer

doubtful because i don't think anyone in that position has gone by anything other than "he"

@jafe Not quite, but it's close

I was debating adding an additional word to make it clearer what the intended parsing is

Which I definitely should've, given how close your answer is

look at this xkcd.com/2043

Or even xkcd.com/2047

ah, it's C_+_E_+_O_

@PiIsNot3 ^

@jafe how?

C(omplying), (n)E(w), (c)O(c)

def is "xe is most important"

ooh

"new" is so often just N that it's sometimes hard to remember that the word also has two other letters :P

hence why i could only see CNO at first

@jafe Yes, that's the intended parsing. I was debating whether I should've added a middle letter indicator such as "centrally" before "new" because I didn't know if it was good form to have "essentially" clue the centers of two words instead of one

i think it's fine

At least neither of our accounts were terminated for this

CCCC: Ireland – briefly French king's region of interest (3)