Pick Me Up Magazine -Issue 33 -Puzzle 9

[jodal]

Pick Me Up Magazine -Issue 33 - Puzzle 9

Can you help me please

1 down - exile (7) ?e?u???

2 down - fresh growth on plants (8) - ?r?n???t

12 across - plateau (5,3) - ????? o?f

25 across - irritability (10) - ?r?s?i?e?s

I would appreciate your help please

[fiction-factory]

JackDunwoody may be able to do these for you as he has been polishing these off today. 12a is level off (or Jack said peter out)

[fiction-factory]

crustiness?

[dannyk13]

1d.Refugee

[Baldric]

25 Frostiness ?

[jodal]

Thanks for your help,best wishes to dannyK13, fiction factory, and baldric. Regards jodal

[fiction-factory]

Have you got 2d now?

[dannyk13]

2d. Seen as greenery

[surfinia]

2d greenery

12a level off

[lynne2496]

pick me up issue 33

18 down (3,4) affectionate moniker ??? ????

[Baldric]

Pet name

[Borlotti]

1 down refugee
25 across grumpiness

[fiction-factory]

I know this answer crustiness has been used before by PMU for this clue

[Borlotti]

Of course it is crustiness, I had it wrong with grumpiness. Cant get greenery for 2 down, as have turn on for 10 across. Very hard this week.

[Borlotti]

Tune in for 10 across, silly me, all completed with a lot of help. Thank you.

[jandrayson]

Refugee

[Davemano]

1 Refugee
25 Crabbiness Crankiness

[Davemano]

Oops I didn't scroll down enough

[fiction-factory]

It certainly looks as if refugee is right!
I think CRUSTINESS has been used for this clue before so I think it's probably that. Can anyone who has done it confirm it please or this could go on for a while

[scorpiojo]

It is correct

[fiction-factory]

Thanks. Can i go I put a bid in for Best Answer then.
REFUGEE
GREENERY
LEVEL OFF
CRUSTINESS