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[devadiva]

Just returned from a weekend away and am trying to catch up on the crosswords as follows:-
Rock hit first in Mid Wales (8) ?A?PE??R.
Railway crossing in which two tracks cross over one another at an acute angle (7) Is It Diamond?D?A?O?D.
Is 24d STOOK. It doesn't specify 12 sheaths in my dictionary?
Item worn by winner of an all female race in medieval times (5) S???K.
Tropical american tree of the quassai family whose bark had medicinal properties. (9) S?M?R?U?A.
?Locust also known as pygmy grasshopper (6) ?R?U?E.
A member of an idigenous people who live in western siberiea (6) ?S?Y?E.

[Tenter]

Lampeter

[shaneystar2]

Rock hit first in Mid Wales ..Lampeter
Diamond
Shock
Smock

Grouse for the locust

[shaneystar2]

Simarouba and the one was Ostyak ..i think !

[Aquagility]

Lamoeter
Diamond
Shock
Smock
Simarougba
Grouse
Ostyak

[devadiva]

Very many thanks to you all - I may be back later

[seekeerz]

missed you on KM links this weekend, DD - have you a note from your parents ?? [only joking !!]

[devadiva]

Sorrry - but I was visiting my parents on the south coast as it was mother's day. Only got back by 15.30 on Sunday suffering from withdrawal symptoms.Managed MM links before I went but scored zero again. Normal service will be resumed this next weekend I hope.

[seekeerz]

I'll look forward to it, DD - there were a few regulars missing last week which I put down to Mothering Sunday.