Really Relay Cryptic Puzzles

[Ichabod]

Can you clarify this hint? Do you mean

There is a straight definition but it's not at the beginning or the end of the clue

or something different?

I mean that you need to do something with one of the words to find the straight definition.

[SevenSpirits]

Hmmm...

Maybe enchanted disease = seaside?

[Ichabod]

I'll give another hint. Hopefully it can make things clearer regarding the straight definition. There's a chance that this hint will make the puzzle easy, so if you'd like to keep with the challenge of trying to read a newby puzzlemaker's mind, it's better to stay unspoiled.

The straight definition can be found within the word "operate".

[zakalwe]

After that final hint, I think it may be

The Magic Flute

A little too high-brow for me, perhaps.

[Ichabod]

After that final hint, I think it may be

The Magic Flute

A little too high-brow for me, perhaps.

Yeah, that's it.

Hopefully it wasn't so bad...

[zakalwe]

I'll be lazy and import one of my unsolved puzzles from the other thread.

Rock on, and vanish on the road? (5)

[zakalwe]

Ichabod, looking at the first 11 letters of the answer, I don't think your puzzle was too hard, in hindsight. But the non-standard structure made it harder. I would have tried to come up with a more cryptic definition rather than hiding it like that.

I still enjoyed it.

[novice]

I'll be lazy and import one of my unsolved puzzles from the other thread.

Rock on, and vanish on the road? (5)

Bah!

[Jkaen]

Can somebody explain ichabods please?

Also am I right that the approach to Zaks is probably:

We find something that means 'rock on', then remove a word or letters from that which mean 'on the road'

[pling]

Is it

Peter

?