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It seems too quiet here. Almost 17.5 hours and no new post?! Just W-O-W!! 
Anyway, here's a simple one:
There's a warmness in the atmosphere (4)
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Agent__007 wrote: Almost 17.5 hours and no new post?
Chocolate Egg Weekend.
It's a public holiday in loads of places.
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Yes, I know. But still 17.5 hours?! I was so tempted to post a "Gimme teh codez" question. 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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There's enough of us here to "troll" vote you off the site!
We're just being quiet and reflective after yesterdays genocide of all those would-have-been chocolate chickens...
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I know you know the answer. Post it and I will take all your sins.
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I have no sins to take, and no answer either!
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Since Griff seems to be completely occupied with chocolate eggs, I'll give it a shot:
HEAT
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And you sir, have hit the bull's eye! 
Your turn tomorrow. Cheers!
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Thanks  I guess I'll get better started figuring out one then 
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Good luck!
(They are harder than they look...or at least I find them easier to answer than set)
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Yep, that's what I'd anticipated  English being a foreign language doesn't make it easier but I guess I'll be able to come up with something. Thanks! 
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BTW, what does WSOCCC mean? God beware I post something tomorrow that actually doesn't comply with the rules!
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OMG, it would've been so much easier if I hadn't asked! (CC's are pretty unknown here.)
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You don't get Cryptic Crosswords in Germany?
I guess that makes some sense, since IIRC German encourages you to make one very long word out of shorter ones!
Donau-dampfschiffahrts-elektrizitäten-haupt-betriebswerk-bau-unterbeamten-gesellschaft (80) would get a little easy...
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Yeah, we're good at that, especially our bureaucrats
The closest thing to a CC that I knew before are paraphrases. To clear up my understanding: Is the CCC given by Agent_007 today a true one? After reading up on it, I can't see how it would fit the "official" definition.
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Yes:
There's a warmness in the atmosphere (4)
There's a warmness in tHE ATmosphere (4)
The "IN" implies (in this case) that the solution is inside the clue, and the first part tells you what to look for.
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Thank you. Looks like my work is cut out for today 
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On a sidenote ...
... I derived another solution: There's a warmness in the atmosphere (4)
athe -> (scramble) -> heat ... my qustion is this (I don't do CCC's apart from voayering CP): are they equally good or is my thinking wrong in regard to description?
modified 19-Nov-18 21:01pm.
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To use that solution, you'd need to add clues to remove the MOSP and RE - you can't just have a clue where you select four letters at random!
Have a look here: http://www.ukpuzzle.com/crypticxwordguide.htm[^] - it gives a (basic!) guide to solving them, which should help explain the structure and rules they need to observe.
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I see what you mean, but in my (substandard) line of CCC thinking, I didn't think of "the" as part of the [in] clause, therefore my "solution" ... thanks for the tip anyway
modified 19-Nov-18 21:01pm.
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Bacon.
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OriginalGriff,
What you wanna say.
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Mongo like Bacon.
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