Spectator 2579 By Mr Magoo

[Matakari]

Good evening, the theme for this one is in sight, but some difficult clues have to be solved before I can complete it. Thanks in advance for your help with the following.
ACROSS:
1 US underdogs willingly bring moggies under control? (4,4) : ?A?EC???
7 I’m sorry, love, to get info about daughter (2,4) : ??U?A?
12 Deciphered name in pastry (2,5) : ?N?LA??
13 Man on board captures a wild ass (5) : ??R?G
14 Money-changing involves plunder, to be expected in studying growth (14) : ?G?OB?????C?A?
33 Suit one bridge player leads to two others (5) : ET??S

DOWN:
8 Almost dangerous term for raconteuse with many stories (4-4) :
?????ISE ( LYRA-WISE )
37 Some silly MP hated vaccine (5) : ??M??

[bobbinwales]

lymph

[bobbinwales]

37 lymph in clue

[JJ109]

13 Your"R" is wrong
Kiang (as.s) = King (man on a chessboard, capturing "a")

[bobbinwales]

Hi Matakari- you sure of all your letters for 1 ???

[jazzgirl]

14 agrobiological

[Toorak]

12 en clair - n(ame) inside eclair (pastry)

[Toorak]

1 tame cats

[jazzgirl]

7 Oh dear

[JJ109]

8 I think is high rise but I can't completely parse it

High Rise (with many stories) = High risk (almost dangerous)....but the rest???

[jazzgirl]

33 Eton s

[bobbinwales]

Is lyra wise a suggestion?
Its something to do with high risk or high rise I agree

[jazzgirl]

High rise fits with the crossers

[bobbinwales]

something to do with nearly high ris(k) but cant see where the E come's from or what raconteuse is for....

[jazzgirl]

A raconteuse also has many stories

[bobbinwales]

yes indeed, but I wonder why its female raconteuse rather than the usual general term raconteur.
I thought stories was only a American spelling of storeys

[Neveracrossword]

Matakari, my nosiness is getting the better of me... You said 'Good evening', do you live in an exciting part of the world?

[jazzgirl]

re 8d I suppose if you replace the 'sk' in high risk with 'se' from raconteuse (not able to do that in raconteur)?
Chambers has both spellings it appears for plurals of story/storey.
I could be writing absolute twaddle, of course :0)

[Neveracrossword]

8 The 'term for raconteuse' means we've to use the last letter....

[Neveracrossword]

...Term, end, has appeared in a few crosswords - and 'term' means 'limit, boundary' so seems fine.

[jazzgirl]

I did also think that . I might go and mow the grass.....