Messenger 406

[Bernie]

8a Con urges another revolutionary leader to become beggar (9) ???O?N???
1d Mysterious colt frolicking round tailess young animal (6) ?????T 14d Ross chats about area in central Scotland(9) ???S?????
20d One who has rien with a jump (7) ?P?????
27a Make cold uninteresting Preserve (6-3) ???E??-?R?
25d Learning the french alternative included (4) L???
19d Messenger entertains Thailand attendant (8) ??U?T???

Many thanks

[Baldric]

14 Trossachs

[Lie-in King]

8a Scrounger - anag 'con urges' +'r(evolutionary)'

[Baldric]

25 Freeze dry ?

[Lie-in King]

27a Freeze-dry

[Lie-in King]

25d L-or-e

[Mamyalynne]

20 upstart

[Lie-in King]

19d Cour-T-ier

[Baldric]

27 not 25, ^^^^ Leo has it

[Lie-in King]

1d Occult (mysterious) - anag 'colt' (round) 'cu(b)'

[Bernie]

Thank you all so much.
I am wrong in 3 I had in.
4d Star say entering Virginia (4)?E?A
16d Seismic disturbnce in the min (8) ??????K?
23a One in the majority (5) A???T

[Mamyalynne]

4 Vega

23 Adult

[Mamyalynne]

16 Seaquake

[Lie-in King]

4d Vega (star) - 'eg' (say, in) 'V(irgini)a'
16d Pitquake
23a Adult

[Baldric]

SEAQUAKE if it's main

[Mamyalynne]

ah, main or mine ??

[Lie-in King]

Please ignore 'Pitquake' (I read it as 'mine') :-)

[Baldric]

Jury is out on that one LIK.

[Lie-in King]

My 'pitquake' doesn't appear to exist Balders, though I could've sworn it did...

[Wharton]

Lie-in King - Take lager with your cornflakes and you'll get a pitquake :-)

[Lie-in King]

I guess being the Special Brew King, you'd know :-)