Indy9152

[yellow11]

help please to get going
1a raving tirade,one containing bitterness principally/8
5a look for 'em,reportedly showing some guts 6
9a caught,oddly,around cover point 3
10a one's charged a top gear character coming in for severe criticism 11
thanks

[scorpiojo]

1 Diatribe anag tirade + bi(tterness)

[scorpiojo]

10 C a Stig at ion?

[shteve]

5a - Caecum (pronounced 'see some')

[shteve]

Sorry, that should be 'seek 'em'!

[scorpiojo]

Is castigation correct, shteve?

[pixie374]

9 tag?

[yellow11]

thanks all

[shteve]

Yesh!
9a - Dot

Wot you got for 17d? Inactive sort to gulp and puff going uphill (8)
Many thanks in advance.

BTW I shall be gutted come March 26th when the Indy disappears!

[scorpiojo]

Ta

Sluggish - slug + sigh

[Neveracrossword]

Because of crossing letters, 17 D seems to be Sluggard - Slug and Drag(reversed).

[scorpiojo]

Oops

[Neveracrossword]

It's not so easy if you haven't a copy in front of you, scorpiojo - my 'a' and 'd' are definitely correct, so your 'sluggish' wouldn't work. (I have more faith in you than in myself - I thought I'd got it wrong when 'sluggish' parsed so well!)

[scorpiojo]

:))

[shteve]

It has to be sluggard if 26a is Abracadbra. Thanks for the other!