Last Two Sunday March 8Th 2020

[charlierabbit]

Local cryptic 1 across: preventing synchronisation is giving people a shock 10 letters
4 down: what will produce venison increased in price, we hear 4 letters

[shoota]

4d Deer

[scorpiojo]

No letters?

[Toorak]

1 staggering - double definition

[charlierabbit]

I put staggering in for 1 across, but that gave me r?e? for 4 down, which I thought was deer.
Letters I had for 1 across were s?a?g???n?
4 down ??e?
Am wondering if there's a mistake?

[Mamyalynne]

Roes , sounds like Rose

[ubasses]

roes - as in female deer ??

[shoota]

The plural of Roe (deer) is Roe...

[shoota]

(Roe is a species - does are female deer)

[charlierabbit]

Brilliant! Thanks so much.

[Mamyalynne]

Can be either.

roe (rəʊ)
n, pl roes or roe
(Animals) short for roe deer
[Old English rā(ha), related to Old High German rēh(o), Old Norse rā]

[shoota]

25 years of stalking and I've never heard anybody use 'roes'.