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[Duncer]

7 down- Flowers in just over fifty stories (6) L?L?E?

10 across -What some TV singers do - hqng about if play's slow at first (3,5)

I have L?P ?Y?C? and am pretty sure it is lip synch, but why?

[factor-fiction]

Lilies

[shoota]

Lilies

[Duncer]

Cheers factor, but why?

Also struggling to see why "smells would be so obstinate if close to head" is odours.

[factor-fiction]

lip synch

LYNCH around IPS (first letters of If Play's Slow)

[shoota]

Lip synch
If Play's Slow in LYNCH

[factor-fiction]

LILIES=L1 (51 in Latin) in LIES (stores), i think

[Duncer]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaah, many thanks.

[sandyRoe]

Odours. letters of 'so' + dour, another word for obstinate. Can't see where 'close to head' comes into it.

[sandyRoe]

see it now. close to head, switch them round. so becomes os, around dour

[emmie]

lilies
lip synch

[Duncer]

Thanks sandy, a rather convoluted one that.

I hate it when I know and answer but can't see why it is the answer.