New Statesman

[dafyddapgwilym]

NS 444. Loving these crosswords, but/and finding this one tough.Help!!
1ac) Establishment producing fine cocktails (4,4)
13d) Expert putting forward article, enthusiastic about port (9)

[dannyk13]

Any letters placed?

[mac44]

1a. stud farm, a cocktail can be a horse.

[mac44]

13d. Amsterdam

[dafyddapgwilym]

Ashamed to admit just 1ac- ????, ?A??

[dafyddapgwilym]

Oh yes, Mac44, I do like that. Brilliant. Bedankt!

[dafyddapgwilym]

And again, many thanks, mac44.

[donny48]

Mac, could you parse Amsterdam ?

[mac44]

expert is master, move A forward,enthusiastic is mad, reversed.

[donny48]

Thanks, Mac.

[dafyddapgwilym]

Stuck on last one:
25ac) Operatic character reported as a hysterical type (6)
I have ?E?M?E

[Neveracrossword]

Meemie is a hysterical person - and it sounds like Mimi, a character from a famous opera (though I can't remember which!).

[fiction-factory]

La boheme?

[dafyddapgwilym]

Well, I’ll go to the foot of our stair. Many thanks.
I’m also having reservations about 19ac which is
Chilly wind snakes round about (6)
I’m back to ?E?E?S and not happy...

[fiction-factory]

recess? not sur eof definition though

[fiction-factory]

Ignore that

[fiction-factory]

Long shot- wedels? (skiing term?)

[Old_Geezer]

No wondr I struggle with crosswords.
Think I'll stick with the numbers puzzles.

[fiction-factory]

Hopefully dannyk, mac44 or donny will see this thread again and will finish the last one for you .
I'm not convinced by WEDELS- could be a chilly wind (to rhyme with bind) is a wedel (where you ski in the cold snow and continually change direction) , and that could cover the snakes (verb) too, but I can't see why the 'roundabout' is there.

[scorpiojo]

Bo re(about) as

[scorpiojo]

.Definition of Boreas. 1 : the Greek god of the north wind. 2 : the north wind personified.