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[hankir]

Help for:

12d. To anyone listening, called harshly for scrambled eggs (5) B??ID

18. Rat on grocery, for example (4) S??P

25. In losing Andy may reduce Scotsmen to tears (5) I??AN

Thanks

[Toorak]

18 shop?

[ubasses]

ingan?

[Toorak]

12 braid (sounds like brayed)

Military term for scrambled eggs

[hankir]

Thanks toorak and ubasses.
I should have looked up scrambled eggs in the dictionary.

What is the parsing on shop and ingan.

Ingan is onion so reducing Scotsmen to tears makes sense. But what is losing Andy?

Also how does shop fit with Rat, Grocery or For Example?

[bookbinder]

18 to shop someone means to tell the police that someone has done wrong, so someone who does that is a rat, because they rat on some other person. Shop could also mean a grocery shop.

[Toorak]

To shop is to rat/grass/inform and a grocery is a type of shop

[ubasses]

ng (no good = losing) inside Ian (scotsman)
ingan = onion which makes you cry!

[hankir]

Thanks bookbinder.
Forgot shop also means to rat.

[hankir]

Thanks again Toorak and ubasses.

[iminoz]

Putting on my pedant's hat here. Parsing for 25d. is in the clue

In losING ANdy may reduce Scotsmen to tears

[hankir]

Thanks iminoz.
A few hours later I was still wondering what Andy had to do with the clue. Sometimes we make it too complicated.