From Dickpatven

[dickpatven123]

I would appreciate all your help with 1 across which is just one word in the Squire's clue and that is OEUVRE which to my mind equals Work or Total BUT I have CANON? Is this correct and if so any help you can give with the parse. Thanks in advance for all your help.

[Captain2]

Canon has the same meaning - body of works, etc

[Captain2]

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/oeuvre

and Def 2 here

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/canon

[jno]

sort of, a canon sometimes implies a list of the best (eg the canon of rock and roll legends) rather than a total list, but I would have thought it's near enough

[dickpatven123]

Thank you Captain2 and jno. You convince me that CANON is the correct answer BUT I have a feeling that the Squires clues have a Skeleton type of answer in the make up of them.
Good night to you both
dickpatven123

[Captain2]

Don't really understand your comment re 'skeleton type of answer' Dick.
Is this not from today's Crusader crossword?

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Crosswords/Question1627763.html

[Mamyalynne]

Is the Crusader like the Lancelot in having two sets of clues with the same answer?

If so the other clue may help explain what is bothering Dickpatven.

[Captain2]

I haven't done, or seen, the Crusader for years Mamya, but I don't recall it having two sets of clues. Hopefully Dick will explain.

[Mamyalynne]

Hope so, yes.

[mac44]

cryptic - Conservative soon accepted, C anon.

[Davemano]

It does have two sets, giving the same answer.
1. Oeuvre
2. Conservative soon accepted.

[Mamyalynne]

Thanks both.

[dickpatven123]

To answer all your queries. I was simply referring to the fact the fact the squires clues are meant to be simple but the fact that a single word clue which, as far as I could tell at the time, bore no relationship to the answer was the "Skeleton" system all over again that is all I was getting at. Thanks for all your help and I am sorry if my reference to the skeleton caused you problems.

dickpatven123

[Davemano]

The 'skeleton' type of answer. Of the two sets of clues, one is straightforward and the other is cryptic, which is normal for this crossword. The C anon had 'to be made up'.

[Davemano]

^^^^ I should have said Oeuvre and Canon are synonymous.