Daily Telegraph Prize Crossword 27,313 Saturday October 19Th 2013

[gazza]

Good morning all, stuck as usual.

1a Keep book behind piano (8) ?R?S?R??

16d Tropical tree comes from river indus, mainly (8) T??????E?

[Infomaniac]

1a preserve

[Rubberface]

Preserve and Tamarind

[gazza]

Many thanks, have a good day

[kettledrum]

P reserve

[berto4u]

Morning all.

27a, is an anagram of "our menus" - enormous, so 16d cannot be tamarind, sorry! I am also stuck on this clue, having the letters T_M_R_E_ so far.
Any help on this last clue would be most welcome, thanks.

[tyrepill]

27A nUMEROUS

[glasman]

River - Tamar
indus mainly- ind
So??????????

[dannyk13]

27a.Numerous
16d.Tamar ind(us)

[MalcJ]

Think 27a is numerous rather than enormous (fits in then with tamarind)

[aelmpvw]

apart from anything else enormous isn't an anagram of our menus

[berto4u]

Hello again,

I have just re-examined clues 16d & 27a. The explanation and solution of "tamarind" seems correct; as does the solution to 27a "enormous", although the two conflict with each other??? I wonder if the Telegraph have made a boo boo!!

[aelmpvw]

are you reading the answers?

[berto4u]

Many apologies, I have had a senior moment and have been seeing things!!!!

[glasman]

No Bert, (see above), it's 'numerous", not 'enormous'.

[berto4u]

sorry everyone, not my usual attention to detail

[poolekiteman]

1a = p-reserve
from poolekiteman