Guardian Prize

[rodders12]

last one - Put down before Indiana city (4) -A-N - please parse your answer and also can anyone parse : Making love shortly after wrestling - animal ; the answer is OPOSSUM but why - thanks gang !

[scorpiojo]

L.A. (City) In(diana)

[scorpiojo]

Spoo(n) + Sum(o)

[Lie-in King]

Lain (put down) - 'LA' (city, before) 'In(diana)'

Opossum - 'o' (love; nil) + 'pos(t) + sum(o)' (shortly 'after' + 'wrestling')

[scorpiojo]

.. I knew mine was rubbish ;o)

[rodders12]

thanks gang !

[Indianan]

LA-IN

[Cryptomaniac]

Very grateful to Lie-in King for parsing of OPOSSUM, but for those who have done the puzzle, I have the solutions to 26 ac,
27 AC and 7 d by definition parts of clues only, but really cannot satisfactorily parse them. Many thanks.

[scorpiojo]

26 Attitudes accepted by detective in force (7)
27 Royal officer completely losing head over queens (7)

26 Met (police force) around 'in' (accepted) + DS (detective)
27 (V)ery (completely) around Que, R (2 queens)

[Mamyalynne]

Hi Crypto, maybe start a new thread and post the full clues.

[scorpiojo]

Oops..

[Mamyalynne]

crossed, ignore my comment

[scorpiojo]

No, I should have said the same :(

[Cryptomaniac]

Would do, Mamya, but thought I made my question quite relevant to the thread and also, find it a bit tedious having to sign out of website, sign in again in order to pose a question. Maybe there's a quicker way I haven't discovered?

[scorpiojo]

If you were already signed in, you wouldn't have to sign out and back in to ask a question. Posters are asked, in the guidelines, to give full clues and letters placed.

[Cryptomaniac]

Thanks, Scorpio. Will look more closely at this, but seems to me that 'enter your question here' box only appears on the page you get immediately after signing in.

[scorpiojo]

If you click on 'Crosswords' now, do you not get an 'enter your question title here' box at the top of the page?

[Cryptomaniac]

I do. And thanks for the tip.

[scorpiojo]

Glad to have helped :)