I'm always amused that tup is both a noun and a verb.

Sheep shagger holding jugs comes (5-2)

Which is probably why the meaning has changed over time. I think we should call a spade an effing shovel and refer to undicated L&S as shite.

I'd call that Goodliffean LS, The term lift and separate was coined by Mark Goodliffe to mean that sort of well hidden caesura in a clue that forces the solver to separate a natural phrase unnaturally in order to solve. More recently many perhaps most take it as what Dave described.

Always made me laugh that XP could represent Christ. More accurately it always made me laugh after Microsoft released a certain version of Windoze.

Seems fine to me but I could see many being flummoxed by it. Rho visually might be more accurate/fairer? Good luck working that into a cogent surface though.

It seemed a likely candidate.

Mate take the advice below and call Samaritans. Also talk to Cath. Thinking of you.

Haven't looked at it but I'd wager you should take the capital letter off to make it dotty and think about what the word means and what it could possibly indicate you need to do. I could of course be completely wrong there.

LOL! nice.

What absolute bollocks! The peak abuse (dreadful syntax BTW) is the endless (highly enjoyable) arguments about why an indicator/clue/anagrind does/doesn't work etc.

Best not to mention homophones either...

#PhysicianHealThyself

Fair enough. All's well that ends well.

Now you're just indulging in reductio ad absurdum.

Of course not as the surface is arrant nonsense that doesn't even pretend/can't aspire to function as an effective unit of language.

Not sure I agree about most. I find far too many fail.

Like you that's just me I also can't help it.

ABBA or skirts?

Is it a fabulous clue? No. Does it work? Yes.

I agree we don't know who is doing it just when it happens by. I also don't see why that's a problem. As a unit of language it functions to inform you that something has been revealed/will be revealed before morning. Surface wise 'by' is strictly a temporal preposition in the sense of 'not after'.

How about something like "The mailman usually arrives by eleven', or "I should be able to get away by five.

No real sense of an impending deadline in those or at least not particularly strict ones.

Starry night over the Rhone by Van Gogh

Absinthe makes the art grow sombre.

Late to notice this. Congratulations David.

Ha! I'd have gone with gross myself.

Because lust has 36-24-36 vision.

Which may not always be perfect syntax (depending on the adjective) but is fine cryptically. Nice clue with a great surface. Supply would have been my go to post fodder grind for oil I think.

I keep forgetting about this contest.

Absolutely agree but again it's only in a temporal sense. Wittgenstein and Humpty Dumpty both apply equally to this way of interpreting endless as an indicator.

Both or either? 🤔

That's purely down to interpretation take the phrase "Start at the end of the street and work your way down." Equally perhaps mid way along a street someone asks for directions to the library or a pub. "It's at the end of the street" Without a further indication like pointing, which end do you mean?

Especially in a Bank Holiday week where it's masquerading as a bloody Wednesday.

With those temporal examples I would agree with you but what about "at the end of the street"? Where does a road begin and end?

Let's take something similar as an example, bank and banks now obviously they strictly need a preposition or possession to apply to the fodder so not exactly the same situation but I would argue that Bank of England is a perfectly good SLI for either E or D.

Certainly fairer to the solver to be specific.