Christmas Speccie

[Farrwest]

Answers to two will get me going again!
3d Horrid thug nearly left water in Middle East (7 two words) ??E????
6d Letters about unknown mouldings (9) ???S???ES
Thanks

[Mamyalynne]

3 The Gulf

anag Thug lef(t)

[JJ109]

Epistyles

[JJ109]

y (unknown) in "epistles" (letters) = epistyles (mouldings)

[Mamyalynne]

Brilliant, I was nowhere near that one.

[Farrwest]

Thank you Mamylanne. Any ideas on 6d.

[dannyk13]

I was looking for something connected to Christmas due to the puzzle title.

[dannyk13]

Look up to jj's post.

[Farrwest]

Thanks JJ109

[Mamyalynne]

Good luck Farrwest.x

[JJ109]

You're welcome, thanks Mamyalynne, sometimes you just see them, other times you never do.

[hankir]

Help with these three:

13d. Raising number in payment is most miserly (7)
68. Gathering round river, climbing straight path (7)
86. Extravagant fiction about one Teutonic lady (7)

Thanks.

[Neveracrossword]

86 A three-letter abbreviation for 'extravagant'/excessive + 1+ three-letter word for 'fiction'.

[Neveracrossword]

69 A three-letter word for a gathering/get-together + a 4-letter river (the river is reversed, climbing). The final word is a straight path.

[roslyn251254]

13d. Raising number in payment is most miserly (7)
NEAREST
68. Gathering round river, climbing straight path (7)
BEELINE ...bee = gathering round Nile reversed
86. Extravagant fiction about one Teutonic lady (7)
OTTILIE ..ott = extravagant/over the top + i lie(fiction)

[Neveracrossword]

69...sorry, the river is inside the gathering.

[Neveracrossword]

Hankir, I wasn't being unhelpful - I know you're a Speccie regular, so I thought hints might be enough!

[hankir]

Thanks NAC and roslyn.
Hints are fine NAC.
I can always comeback.

I was not sure about Nearest for 13d because I get strange letter combination at 12 (unclued).

But googled a little bit and found the unclued which I had not heard of before.

36d unclued letters do not give me much.

SW corner still a problem.
Will come back after trying for a while.