14d) Two centuries since one in battle footwear. The answer is moccasins but i can't work out the word play - CC for two centuries but can't fathon the rest out.
Similarly, 8d) is organ grinders. Revolutionary street entertainers in rags circling Miller.
Same again for 20d - Hold up. Stop - just gin, no vermouth!
14d. CC is two centuries followed by I then put inside mons which was a battle in the first world war.
8d. organs and rags are alternatives for newspapers.
they go round grinder which is another name for a miller.
1d could be undergo.
sorry can't help with the others,20d how many letters?
moccasins = mons(battle) round as i (since one)
organ grinders = rags(newspapers i.e.organs) round grinder (miller)
hold it = just gin hold the it (italian vermouth)
brownie (camera theme) = pm=brown before 1 e
compact (camera theme) =comp(short competition)
act(function)
1d compact
FUNCTION = act
SHORT CONTEST = comp (etition)
Solution is one of the themed no-definition group
I, too, am puzzled by organ grinders as don't know where the 'n' comes from. As far as I can see we have
Miller = grinder
0 = circling
rags = anagram
but there is a spare 'n'. Can anyone else help with that?
16 d brownie
PM = Brown
before one = i
quarter = e
Solution is one of the themed no-definition group