Club Monthly

[mra1]

Was getting on too well! Stuck on last 3 down and last 4 across so I am looking for the usual whizzkids for assistance please. Here goes:- 6 across (4) An opening in Edinburgh or Belfast; small capitals you used in the past ?H??- I had thought Thee or Thou but dont get the wordplay; 10 across (7) Local insists on what apprenticeship has perhaps just missing out ??R?L??; 13 across (5,4) Good engine fuel succeeded - a lot came free S???M, ?O??: 25 across (4) how male comes to make regional side L???; I have tried various anagrams but without success; 15 down (9) being fed up, returning sons post letters from abroad S?T?R?E?? - thought it might be something to do with saturate or satiate but again no joy; 6 down (7) Oath men devised never again used by poet N?????O and 8 down (5) Look to bring about trial of revolutionary antibacterial liquid - no letters at all for this

[cashier]

13 stream coal

[mra1]

Thank you but should that be steam not stream please - one too many letters if the latter is correct

[Calibax]

6a Scye

[cashier]

Sorry hadn't noticed yes steam coal

[mra1]

Thank you Calibax - that changes the L in 10 across to an E

[mra1]

That could make 8 down ETHYL and add a final T to 10 across - does that make sense?

[mra1]

sorry that should be H - ie ??R?E?H

[Calibax]

8d Eusol - lo sue reversed
10a looks like Threeps but I can't parse it

[mra1]

Thanks Calikbax - that makes 8 down N?T?E?O - obviously an angram of oathmen but I still dont get it!

[Calibax]

^"apprenticeship" has three P's - still can't see the "just missing out" though.

[Calibax]

Nathemo - archaic poetic version of never the more

[mra1]

You are a star Calibax - er how are you on 15 down and 25 across to clear everything up?

[Calibax]

Satedness - S Send Etas reversed

[Calibax]

Any more letters for 25a?

[scorpiojo]

:)

25 across (4) how male comes to make regional side L???; I have tried various anagrams but without success

[mra1]

Thank you - I had Kuraitcha for 20 across but KADaitcha does very well! 25 across now reads L?S? - Last make sense?

[Lie-in King]

25a Lisk (dialect "side; flank") - 'L is K' - how 'maLe' comes to 'maKe'

[Calibax]

Brilliant LiK :o)

[mra1]

Thank you very much indeed Lie-inKing - I had been stuck on these last ones for three days - got the rest on Friday and thought I had cracked it - the sin of pride etc!