Help Please

[johnT]

Pretty sure of adjoining letters - but I've been wring before

4d. NRM way was a mean ordeal (6,4) L?E?A? ??A?
14a. Gawps (6) ?T???E
24a. Local's slow in finishing? (6) L?W???

Thanks

[dannyk13]

14a Stares

[johnT]

Dannyk13 - unfortunately for 14a the last letter appears to be E letter count appears to be ?T???E

[Mamyalynne]

4 Leeman Road - Railway Museum

[margarettom]

4. Leeman Road

[margarettom]

So where does the E in 14 come from?

[writesbad]

14a goggle?

[dannyk13]

I think that any synonym of gawps should also end in an 's'.

[Mamyalynne]

Agreed Danny.

[johnT]

I got the E from 13d.

13d. Tykes tell these tales about molars (5,5) I had HELLS TEETH
but if it's wrong and STARES is correct - the letter-count will be
?S?L? TEETH

[margarettom]

I agree Danny. I think your answer is right.

[Mamyalynne]

24 Lowsin

[alidoc]

presume it is an anagram of these tales, so something teeth, I've tried all the possibilities but cannot confirm any of them.
Sometimes a clue can be too obscure , in the end I'm going to randomly scatter the 5 possible letters around the s in position 2 and l in position 4 that I already have. I'm sure this won't help you !

[Mamyalynne]

Now seen answered elsewhere as

Assel Teeth

[Mamyalynne]

Scroll down to a numbered list.

Number 39

https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/YRY/YKS/FolkTalk/Chapter6

[Llanfair]

More likely to be ASSLE TEETH - https://archive.org/stream/glossaryofwordsp00dickrich/glossaryofwordsp00dickrich_djvu.txt which states Assel - teuth to be a molar or grinder.

[Mamyalynne]

No doubt various spellings, have seen 'Assil' on another reference page but of course that doesn't satisfy the anagram.

[Llanfair]

Yes, Mamyalynne, but I say more likely as both johnT and alidoc have L as the fourth letter.

[Mamyalynne]

True.