Eye Crossword 713

[Littlebrock]

2 down Good-for-nothing American swim crushes left .E.B possibly

[Crosswordchump]

It is not E. IMO 5a a poor clue. Handy cash is always plural, except this time. You are looking for no difficulty. Does that help you SOB?

[TheWinner]

slob?

[Littlebrock]

Sorry a typo, swine not swim. I agree about 5 across. I had readies but could not parse it. Thank you for your replies.

[bobbinwales]

SOAB is a swine. Maybe change the A american for a O nothing and insert an L for left. Or summat like that. Or maybe

[bobbinwales]

Or maybe just SOB ( son of a b....) for American swine plus L for left to give slob ( a good for nothing)??

[Neveracrossword]

I went with Slob, it seemed to work best.

[emmie]

i would go with slob...

[bobbinwales]

Clearly I wasn't clear. In both my posts bobb went for slob too. I was just looking for a cryptic route as there as to be one here

[emmie]

sob, son of a b**** L

[bobbinwales]

Yep. What I thought I'd said for word play at 656 but clearly my explaining was'nt clear

[Neveracrossword]

Bobbinwales, your 'maybe' and the ??at 6.56 made me think you hadn't convinced yourself yet, so I just shoved in my viewpoint! I'd answered the clue the day before, someone had had similar problems with a crossing answer.

[bobbinwales]

Thanks
The answer ending maybe submitted before I'd finished so I continued in a new reply.
My ?? is a bad habit and because someone suggested it was just a straight clue and I'm not an expert on these

[aelmpvw]

readily for readies . . .