Wee Stinker

[Harry-Wragg]

14d Hoodie? (7) m??s?r
20d Black Countess chewed cherries (5) a?n?s

[BigDave44]

Good evening Harry. So Monday has come round again, and another Stinker.

20d is Agnes, but I don't understand the cherries !!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Dunbar,_4th _Countess_of_Moray

[kayakamina]

Geans are cherries.

[Harry-Wragg]

Good evening to you Dave - yes - another Monday - another week older - another week nearer the loonie bin!! - superb response as usual - thanks.

[Harry-Wragg]

kayakamina - thankyou - I new that (easy to say in hindsight!!) - thanks again

[filibuster]

Another Stinker trier here, Harry. I have mobster for 20d. but there are several more I haven't found yet. Have you completed the crossword?

[BigDave44]

I trusted Harry so much that I didn't even notice that his pattern for 14d had only 6 letters !!! No wonder I couldn't find it.

[filibuster]

Hello BigDave, I don't want to ask for any clues yet but if you could just loiter in the background, I'll maybe defer to you at a later stage as I am struggling this week. Thanks in anticipation.

[BigDave44]

The Herald let me have a free 3-day trial, so I did get to do one of these puzzles. They may be small, but they deserve the title !!!

[filibuster]

I totally agree. I've been doing it for a few years now and actually won once and got a dictionary and a T shirt. I was glad of the dictionary but I sooooo wanted the T shirt.