Following on from Hofzinser's thread on the last OTF, which was meant to last one Friday but which has now been going for weeks.

It's all about creating a chain of cryptic crossword clues. Playing the game consists of setting a cryptic crossword clue, which must contain the answer to the last clue. (You can't carry on from your own clue, of course: only from someone else's.)

So, the last answer was THE GOOD SOLDIER SVEJK, and I think we were at:

Stout fighters for autonomy get backing of author of The Good Soldier Svejk, and destiny intervenes (4,5,1,4)

Ah, excellent. I going to get this started up again but I missed the last clue before the old board was vanished away.

Fate takes a hand before his case is resolved (8)

Struggling a bit with this one.

By contrast, today's Guardian crossword is the easiest I can remember in quite some time.

Lachesis, for example, with her Cockney offspring, sang Scottish folk songs (5,8)

You see, I was looking for anagrams of r+his case and l+his case, but was hampered somewhat by never having heard of lachesis.

No, me neither, but I looked up the Fates on Wikipedia. I thought that was a really neat (in both the UK and US senses) clue.

Or a really tidy one (in both the Welsh and English senses).

I must somewhat shamefacedly admit that I first became aware of Lachesis because it's the name of a track (one part of an, if you will, trilogy) on the first Emerson Lake and Palmer album.

Distressed Moira Anderson, rains abated, is abandoned (8)

Marooned with decapitated sweethearts so scraps eaten later (9)

Purveyor of leftovers from town in Indiana becomes clear-headed (4,6)

I failed with classical mythology, but my campaign to get Tubby onto this thread continues apace.

Although you got the last answer *slightly* wrong...

Oh, that's true. I'll edit - it makes my clue read a bit better anyway.