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Spectator N0 2479

Matakari | 14:55 Thu 15th Oct 2020 | Crosswords

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Good evening, I need some help to crack the unclueds, please!
Answers to these 2 ACROSS would be appreciated, thanks:

31 Poor Ruth follows me to eastern river in France (7): ?E????E
32 Heads of religious houses are uppish and a touch standoffish (9): ??P??A?R?

And HINTS for these:
DOWN:
6 Gone off, having been in charge of plain clothes division (6): ?AU?C?
7 A piece of food cut for the birds (5): ??H?N
8 Antics regularly denoting friendly goblin (3): ??E
9 The hollow tree managed to sway (6): ??L??N
12 Pals and group of artists at sitcom (13, hyphened): ?S?AOL???RND?
33 Vulture finding difficulty landing in two bends (5): ?RU??
38 John’s game (3): L??

Rte Guide 43

Which Cryptic

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Neveracrossword

6 An old crossword favourite. A three letter 'was in charge of' followed by the usual abbreviation for plain clothes division of the police. The answer means 'gone off'.

8 Just alternate letters.

PS You have mistakes in 6,7,9 and 12.

Calibax

32 superiors?

Neveracrossword

Just noticed you've gone wrong in 32 A too. The A is incorrect. You simply need the name, title of those who're in charge of convents/religious houses. The singular means 'uppish', add a touch, letter, from 'standoffish'.

JJ109

31 me - anagram ruth - E(astern)

Neveracrossword

9. The hollow = a common crossword device, resulting in 2 letters + anagram of 'tree'. To sway is the definition.

Neveracrossword

Matakari, have a stab at getting the theme! It's not too tricky, the title gives away a lot and one or two of the unclued entries reveal themselves quite quickly.

roslyn251254

30d gave me the theme...not many possibles for the filled in letters...

JJ109

38 John here means "toilet"
The answer is a toilet and a card game also

JJ109

33 There are actually 3 bends in this answer

JJ109

12 The SA and R are wrong
Learning establishment/group of artists + sitcom Ross Joey Chandler Phoebe, Rachel and Monica = young pals

Matakari

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Many thanks, all, I've got the theme and am working my way through your hints now. Quite interesting!

Neveracrossword

Thanks, Matakari. Glad you're making progress, glad the answers and hints helped.

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