General Question

[cashier]

I have just tried to post a question regarding the Telegraph Toughie - but the question was banned. Can anyone explain why please

[DocHH]

No idea, try again. If it is about todays, i.e. number 78, might be able to help. If it fails again just put clue numbers in this thread!

[cashier]

14ac and 9 dn

[sedge47]

14a. Eunice ( uni surrounded by even characters of tEaChEs)
9d. Egress (included in clue backwards)

[DocHH]

14ac) EUNICE wordplay is tEaChEs, ie oddletters of teaches, around UNI.
9d) EGRESS hidden word from waS SERGEant, but backwards.

[cashier]

Many thanks how about 17ac and 20 dn please

[sedge47]

17a. Ri n gs
20d. g elat o

[DocHH]

Hello Sedge47
7ac) threw me for a while, an elegant clue, I felt.

[sedge47]

7a. Hi DocHH. Yes, a nice clue with "no employment" giving "nil work". The one which took me longest was 16a - not getting the answer, but working out the wordplay.

[cashier]

Thanks everybody but how did you see this question as far as I can see it only appears in "my profile" not in any general column.

[sedge47]

It's in the "Crosswords" topic (subset of Quizzes & Puzzles)

[BigDave44]

With 16a I got the first part OK, but how does "drawn" translate into "x" ? All I could think of was signing with an "x".

[sedge47]

Hi BigDave. I took the x to be how you select draws on the football pools !! (pretty tenuous I admit)

[BigDave44]

Thanks - it seems that there is at least one iffy clue each day !! Funnily enough, I had no problem with 7a - a lucky guess at the author perhaps !!

[sedge47]

I'm sure, after the history of your musical education yesterday, that you had no problem with 11a !!

[BigDave44]

Right on - do you realise that it is only just over two weeks to the fiftieth anniversary of his death !!
The History of Pop Music, 1955 - 1965 is my specialist subject!