Daily Mail Prize Crossword Wednesday August 13Th 2014

[redsokk]

5A Flat's low in street next to hotel 6L ???O??
10A Expert Putin ordered to control department 6L ???D??

[MargoTester]

Smooth
Pundit

[dannyk13]

5a.Smooth - moo(low) in st(street) + h (hotel)
10a.Pundit - d in anagram of Putin

[redsokk]

Thanks Margo... how come smooth please ???

[dannyk13]

Parsed above Red ^^^^

[retrocop]

Well done Margo.You got your Best Answer. Heres to many more.

[MargoTester]

See Danny's full answer. Perhaps he should have ba

[dannyk13]

NO, it's yours Margo.

[MargoTester]

Thanks Danny - now I need some help please
15 a doctor came in with lorgnette an attractive thing e?e?tro?a?n?t
9a postpone work on both changes in us supermarket

[scorpiojo]

Electromagnet

[elliemay1]

electromagnet

[dannyk13]

15a.Electromagnet
9a.Mothball

[Sipowicz]

Mothball

[Neveracrossword]

15 Electromagnet, anagram

How many letters in the second one?

[scorpiojo]

Danny, what's a suitable punishment for not giving the letter count? ;-)

[retrocop]

Your a hard person Scorpio.Let Margo off today. She got her long awaited BA.

[dannyk13]

Subtraction of 1 BA seems appropriate.:-)

[scorpiojo]

Second offence, Retrocop ;-)

Lol, Danny

[retrocop]

Your hard also danny and there was me giving you an easy time today.

[dannyk13]

All in jest Retro. Easy time?

[MargoTester]

It's all getting a bit confusing here - I should have started a new thread shouldn't I. Thanks to scorpiojo elliemay and sipowicz and Danny. Cheers for the good wishes retrocop