Sunday Telegraph Cryptic 2802 Sunday June 28Th 2015

[08012006]

problems at bottom left !

14a Rebuff queen may deliver, but never king (5)
C?E?K (cheek, check - WHY?)
26a Like the majority of people, wrong about answer after answer (5)
????N
28a Where all the pieces of poetry you write are set in row for typist (8)
????O?R?

19d Produce some rhyming slang, initially kept in check (7)
V?R????
22d Without reason, brought up request for material (6)
?A????
24d Wild animal seen in feeDING Orgy and covered in gore (5)
(pl explain why “and covered with gore”)

[Newgirlonthebloc]

24d dingo appears in feeding orgy and again in covered in gore
22d damask

[bibblebub]

14a: check - think of chess
26a: Asian

19d: versiry
22d: damask
24d: just to add more words to make it less obvious

[SwerBan]

14a - CHECK - In chess the Queen can Check, but not the King.

22d - DAMASK - Without reason = MAD

24d - covere(d in go)re

[sedge47]

14a check (in chess)
26a A si a n
28a keyboard
19d ver s ify
22d dam ask
24d dingo (hidden twice in clue)

[bibblebub]

19d: versify

24d: oops, didn't notice that it occurs in the 2nd part

[Newgirlonthebloc]

26a asian
19d versify

[08012006]

Many thanks for explanations and solutions.

Versify: why initially kept in check
I don't get reason for Asian, apart from Asia being the most populous continent

[sedge47]

19d Initial letter of S(lang) inside VERIFY (check)
26a A(nswer) + SIN (wrong) containing A(nswer)

[alan]

28a keyboard
24d hidden twice dingo in feeding orgy and again in covered in gore (not covered with gore)