Thank you Barry, RUSH fits in because the word I have to enter should be a second meaning for RUSH and it is REED.
Hope you will be able to crack the other one too. My mind could not get away from a human singer and was thoroughly stuck !!
Again you have cracked it for me Barry, because the word that I had to fit in is ACCOUNT and it is another meaning for in-voice which ie O in vice (clamped)
That has cleared almost a week of racking my brains !!!!
ramilahs, why didn't you give that extra information earlier?
That would help people like myself on here not to waste their time!
We are not all Guardian connoisseurs!!
It was a question of how not to go into lengthy explanations and of course I did not know how many Guardian crossworders were out there.
But the simple answer is that I did not have the words REED and ACCOUNT with me -- these were worked out after I had Barry's reply. I only had ?E?D and A?C?U?T and I could not be sure if these were right.