Answers To Everyman Crossword 3707

[Magicmeg]

17A Check eveidence for restoration. I have R???S?A?E?E?T. Is it reinstatement? If so why
21A Relaxed criminal needs to admit deficiency. (9) I have abandoned but it does not seem to work
18D Popular monarch harbouring large suspicion(7)
20D Numb when on strip going north (6)

[fiction-factory]

rein (check) + statement

[mac44]

18d. in k l ing

[mallyh]

18d in k l ing

[sedge47]

21a s lack ened

[dannyk13]

18d. Inkling

[sedge47]

20d as leep

[mac44]

21a, slackened, lack in anag of needs.

[Magicmeg]

Thank you fiction factory,mac44,mallyh,sedge47 and dannyk13. magicmeg

[mikey4444]

6a...Security in place beside border....P?E?G?

PLEDGE ?....can't see the parsing here !

[Neveracrossword]

Pl,place+Edge,border.

[dannyk13]

P(place) + edge(border)

[dannyk13]

^Pl^

[mikey4444]

Thanks Danny, but where is the word PLEDGE defined within the clue ?

[dannyk13]

Security as in a pledge at the pawnbrokers.

[donny48]

pledge
something delivered as security for the payment of a debt or fulfillment of a promise, and subject to forfeiture on failure to pay or fulfill the promise.

[mikey4444]

Thanks guys....never been into a Pawnbrokers before !