Cryptic Stuff

[not_for_sale]

While it was done some years ago I see, I thought I would try a cryptic crossword-like thread for fun and to try and boost a little more interest here. I made up the below question for anyone interested in such a challenge. I thought the first person to get it correct might come up with the next question. A clue though - if you copy one from a newspaper or magazine etc., the answer can often be found on the internet. I can explain the answer for anyone who asks. 🙂

The prisoner at the cave would not stand for the electrically charged droplets of water.

(12 letters)

[twyngwyn]

yes, she_el...over to you 🙂

[the_great_she_elephant]

She disabled three would-be assailants – the story contains graphic details.

3 words 3, 6’1, 4 letters

[not_for_sale]

Mad Hatter's Ball?

[the_great_she_elephant]

Nope, sorry.

[janeababe]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

She disabled three would-be assailants – the story contains graphic details.

3 words 3, 6’1, 4 letters

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Her Killer’s Tale.    

[twyngwyn]

The Farmer's Wife

[janeababe]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

She disabled three would-be assailants – the story contains graphic details.

3 words 3, 6’1, 4 letters

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Can I please do some ‘working out’ on here, so the cryptic professionals can guide me in the right direction because I am seriously struggling ‘mentally’ to work these damn solutions out.... comes with shift worker brain I think which is probably akin to baby brain 😂

so my thinking is:  She disabled three-  so I’m scrambling the letters of the word three to get a female word=Her? Or maybe it’s another word for three=tri = try?  Or perhaps it’s got nothing to do with she at all and the answer is The?  IDK that’s for sure.... lol

Then for the last part: The story contains graphic details. I originally thought it was a whole clue. Hence my Killer’s answer.  But then I thought Eg- story =tale. (The only 4 letter word for story I could think of) but NOW I’m thinking along the lines that a 4letter word rhyming with story that means graphic is Gory. .... but I don’t know how to fit it into the cryptic clue as a whole. 🤦🏻‍♀️ 3, 6’1, Gory. 
I’m also stabbing in the dark that the answer is a name of a book..... being a writer and all 😉

H..E...L...P 😂😂😂😂😂

[the_great_she_elephant]

Correct.

3 would-be assailants = three blind mice (they all ran after the farmer's wife)

graphic details = she detailed them (cut off their tails) with a carving knife.

thus disabling them. 

[the_great_she_elephant]

The devil was in the 'details,' Jane.😁

[not_for_sale]

The thing is janeababe, some people who write cryptic clues are sneaky, devious, conniving, misleading and misdirecting culprits. The trick is to work out which trick/s they are pulling! It's hard and can all but do your head in at times. But with experience comes strength, and they can be brought down! 😄