Inquisitor 1122

[BradleyGas]

27A - Son's fostered, rooted locally.
The answer will have either 8 or 10 letters, with either one or two sets of double letters (i.e. 2 Ts or Ys or any other double letters). All I have is S-U-ED with the double letters having to fit in anywhere.

Also 22D - Raised shoe without offence? Tom, dead angry, is taken inside. The answer has the same rules as above so can be either 10 or 12 letters. So far I have A-O----D. Again, the double letters have to fit in anywhere.

Can anyone help please?

[whitehill]

Could 22ac be accommodated? (moccasin backwards without the sin and anag of Tom and dead

[BradleyGas]

Brilliant whitehill. Would never have got that on my own! Still a few more to go, but that answer will help to get them.

[snikwal]

27a- snuzzled s=son nuzzled=fostered; remove zz. snuzzled(rooted locally) Any thoughts on 2d and 30d

[BradleyGas]

Sorry snikwal, I haven't got those either. Thanks for your answer. I still need to get four answers and the two you mention were amongst them. I thought the ones I asked would help with the others.

[judypark]

2d For "seat" think bicycle seat, the complete word is 10 letters. Am totally stuck on 30d. The letters I have are ar?i?e.

[snikwal]

Judy: Think of an anagram meaning "attacking first".(ten letters)

[Wideernie]

30 down is an anagram of 3 sources. 10 letters long.

[judypark]

Thankyou both, my penny has now dropped. However, I'm still baffled by the remaining element to be highlighted. I have Q and X unnaccounted for. Help!

[BradleyGas]

Thanks for the hints on the ones I had difficulty in getting. I have now got 2d and 30d.

I am now stuck on 3d - can anyone help please?

Also, like judypark, I have difficulty in understanding which clue to highlight. I thought it was 23a as it had 2 d's, but it can't be as 2d had the d's accounted for. Can anyone assist on this please? Thanks

[Ardboe]

Element to be highlighted - think paper size(plural)

[BradleyGas]

Thanks Ardboe, that's helped me finish it all now. A tough one this week!

[judypark]

Well it's alright for you bradley, going smugly off to bed having completed this stinker. Shall give it my best shot again tommorrow morning. Just spare a thought for a fellow Inquisitoree who has been burning the midnight oil in leafy Leicestershire. LOL..
Many thanks to all who have helped, sleep well all.
Judy

[slaney]

Judy - it may be worthwhile looking at 17a carefully.

[BradleyGas]

Judy, sorry you're losing sleep over this. If you need any answers, let me know.

[judypark]

Many thanks slaney, I had not considered 17a as I had the word completed via solving each of the downward clues therefore had not looked at it again to eliminated xx.
Bradley, thankyou for your kind offer, all done now. Don't know why I put myself through this every week, to be trueful, I don't really rate champagne.
On the brighter side, the dog will now get walked, we will have hot dinners this week and I will have a good nights sleep.

[BradleyGas]

Well done Judy, glad you've got it all done now.