Enigmatic variations

[lector]

1a) Rumpus with artist offering title for both sexes (7)
6a) Unwaged person following school sport (5)
10a) Bump into formerly overlooked heir (10)
11a) Knows kiss given by the French is latent in Scots (6)
13a) Distinctive pattern showed by boaters (4)

1d) Party audible? Here's wine (5)
2d) Revolted feeling, about to tuck into the mushroom (10, 2)
3d) Reservation over beer's subsequent transaction (7)
4d) Computer's uninterrupted power supply increases
(4)
5d) Brought up story about remote insectivores (8)
6d) Sard stone reset in neat rings (6)
7d) Help virgin to shake off male (4)
8d) Cap on after hard blow? Not quite (6)
9d) Cut out religious group following Exodus 87)
12d) Likely to drip one striking brandy containing little good wine (10 hyphenated word)

[kettledrum]

Do you have any letters for any of these?

[sarumite]

My thoughts exactly kettledrum! ;0)

[lector]

sorry no!

just starting this ....

also you have to work out if the anser say to number 4 is entered vertically up or down OR horizontally up or down!!

have to get a few answer possibles first, then 'paly around with entering them until eureka something fits!!!!

Its a Prize crossword in Sun Tel .... I may have to send Kyakamina a PC to get him back online!!

[lector]

the prize is a distinctive telegraph fountain!!!

[lector]

help!!

[kettledrum]

I would if I could ....

[lector]

calling kayakamina .....r u there

[slaney]

lector I feel your pain !
To fill the void for 7d I will try
Aide --Maide = ( maid M E) = virgin, without the M
Not come across this crossword before -- are all the words likely to be very obscure?

[lector]

slaney

the answers are not obscure .... cryptic.

in this weeks puzzle you dont have to work out where to position the answers .... but there are other complications!!

�A number of clues contain a misprint of one letter in the definition; there answers are too long for the space indicated by their number. The surplus letters are STRAGGLERS, one by one in order appearing in the subsequent answers (whose indicated lengths are therefore one too great for their answers, but whose clues are otherwise normal) until the next misprinted clue. Stragglers from the last across answer will spill over into the downs and vice versa. The interruptions are always given by a correct letter in a crossing word. Correct letters in misprints in order to spell out how the STRAGGLERS appear.�

So it is very straightforward!!!!!!!

thanks --- for Maid

This is from Sun Tel Seven Mag!!!

[lector]

given the above ...

I think that Virgin is Maiden ... shake off the Male = aiden

Help in the clue = aide ie 4 letters

so the letter n is a STRAGGLER that so this letter n moves to the next clue ie 8 down!!

now what is the real answer for 8 down with/without STRAGGLERS!!