Minute cryptic

They’re Chordata so yeah fish “like” but get fucked.

No, I thought that was a terrible clue; not "fish like" (amphibious would have been better) not "finally" in any meaningful sense; and certainly not "commercial".

SPOILER sorry

Probably OK this late in the day. Probably.

Almost certainly fine.

Oh ffs

Yeah it made sense but it’s a fucking frog life massage for fucks sake.

Opens the debate for philosophy students to step in.
“Is it a frog?”
“If a tadpole is fishlike, will a frog fall in the woods”

Id suggest to watch the video as it explains it all. Ive learnt just from thr videos

Oh ffs

I'm sorry.

I knew I shouldn't have done that.

Won't happen again.

A tadpole is definitely fish-like.

It swims in water with a tail.

It's fish-like.

There was a whole thread of bikes that look like fish on here once.

They were fish-like, but not fish.

It’s quite baffling how they only need to do one clue a day, but they can’t get every element right every time. This is a very good clue apart from ‘fish-like’, which doesn’t really work and wouldn’t pass muster in any of the UK broadsheets’ daily crosswords. Araucaria would be spinning in his grave at that.

Fuck off.
It’s a developmental stage of the final form.
It has external gills and legs.

Are beavers fish like?

What about tigers?

Both swim in the water and have tails.

Yeah I’ve got to say fish-like was the only clunker here. It’s like the setter didn’t know what they were so google image-searched them.

Worked for me, what can I say?

Maybe amphibious would be better but loses some of the symmetry of the clue.

Cryptic, innit?

(A recent CtC Friday video featured "Offer?" as a definition for the solution "Assassin". Apparently that is a classic clue. I don't think that a tadpole being fish-like is a greater stretch than that.

Also "grounds worker" for "barista" in the same puzzle. Ditto.)

Coffee grounds.
How does the assassin one work?

Oh. One who “offs” haha

1 under this morning. Got it on one half of the clue, the other half makes nonsense to me whatsoever

Have you watched the video explainer? I was the same, but the solution is quite satisfying and I'd love to solve something like that one of these days

One under, haven’t seen this kind of clue for a while, suddenly clicked!
At first I went through all the ends of the worlds (final four letters of each planet) and chuckled when I got to Uranus.

I am avoiding them, because the guy is annoying

He is very annoying.

If you want a typed explanation click below.