Dtgk 20Th June

[mjganswers]

Am having problems with 5!!!!!

2d Drone club character [2] I have ?s?i?h

5d Science based on the properties of soil in relation to growing crops [8]
I have ???o?o??

19d Astronomer red shift discoverer. [7] I have h???i?s

26a City in the the CChubu region of Japan [6] I have n?????

40a Bodyof knowledge and process of systematic study [7] I have ?c?e?c?

10a .... sugar ingedient mixed with with mascarpone and used as topping for carrot cake [5] I have h?i??

Tia for help to save my day!!!!

[fiction-factory]

5d may lead to the usual agrology/agronomy debate depending on the intersecting letters

[dannyk13]

2d.Psmith
5d.Agrology
19d.Huggins
26a.Nagoya
40a.Science
10a.Icing

[fiction-factory]

40a SCIENCE

[fiction-factory]

I'll stop there then!. Well done dannyk- i don't know how some posters manage to read the clues and type so quickly

[dannyk13]

FF. The intersecting letters are both blanks so either word fits but agrology has the better definition.

[fiction-factory]

Thanks dannyk13- I recall there is a small distinction between the two words but I can never remember which is which.

[mjganswers]

Thankyou. but if Icing is correct what 3d come. I had White but it
is probably a different Isle.

[dannyk13]

Wight

[mjganswers]

Thankyou.. Should have looked up in an Atlas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!