Minute cryptic

I always hint if I don’t get into it straight away. I don’t care.

Can't get past coat of paint, which I'm sure I'm taking too literally

Classic cryptic clue technique - it's such a common phrase that we find it hard to interpret in any other way than as its common parlance reading.

Instead, think of it as word play, a manipulation of the actual constituent letters of "paint". What is its coat? Which parts of the word coat the rest?

Once you know that, read on further in the clue and see what you are being told to do with the bit you have just figured out.

I'm the same. Took me ages today. Yesterday was pretty quick

I think I get it. Would never have come to that line of thinking on my own though! Thanks for the explanation.

3 under

3 under

3 under. Found that clue pretty clunky to read, and not just the space before the comma

Another one that was solved as it was read.

It really feels like my brain (sometimes) reads these clues in the correct cryptic register

Another one that means nothing to me initially!

NTM?

Ok, 2 under. "Caddies periodically" did not mean anything like my initial thinking.
Used the hint which didn't help at all, already figured that bit must be the definition. Quite a loose definition of the answer!

Is that a clue?

"nothing to me initially"

See, I'm rubbish at these!

In general I wouldn't both going for a "hint" uness you are totally blind sided.

3 under - came a bit easier due to a) being a parent and b) the answer featuring in one of my favourite dad jokes.

The apostrophe gave me momentary pause, but soon figured it out

3 under

2 under, guessed a synonym after taking the hint

2 under for me, hint again was no help - does it always just tell you which bit is the definition? I don't get the clue unless "about" means we're looking for something that sounds a (very little) bit like "Ponderin'", which would make some sense?

https://cryptics.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_container_and_contents_indicators

3 under. Tenuous if you ask me

Thanks, that's helpful (be more helpful if they'd broken it down more in the examples, found it quite difficult to parse). All these rules to learn!

Ok, watched the explainer of the clue and it makes sense, quite few steps to this one. Feels harder than previous couple of days.

OK. I looked for synonyms but I thought this was a bag o' wank.

I got this straight off just by guessing a synonym, but I'm still none the wiser as to why it was right.

the ending is like the ending of the first word.
if you're doing this first word you're _ing
an abbreviation of

I watched the video and thought "oh cock off you cock"