Daily Express Crusader Friday June 25th 2010

[owllady]

1A) Wrong about Inca clergyman (10)
2D) Associate confuses a lie with a tiff (9)
17A) Pirate on the board (9)

Thanks for any help, brain has given up!!

[CGreenland]

2D) AFFILIATE (anag.)

[bibblebub]

2d affiliate

[CGreenland]

Snap, bibblebub!

owllady, can you give us any checked letters on the others, please?

[owllady]

Sorry forgot
1A) ??A?T?????
17A) T?E?C???R

[bibblebub]

1a) INACCURATE = anagram o f 'inca', followed by curate

[owllady]

Thanks very much for your help

[bibblebub]

did you get an answer for 17A? I can't stop trying to think of an answer

[owllady]

No I didnt but I must be wrong with 3D
Clue is Angry article finds way to negotiate traffic (5,3,6)
I have: C???Y/ THE/ ??R?ER
Can you help?

[bibblebub]

cross the street

[owllady]

Gosh thanks!! That means that 17a is now T?E?S???R Treasurer??

[bibblebub]

ah yes, you're right

[owllady]

Thanks for all your help, but can I pick your brain again?I though I had finished.
18D) Love old fashoined Italian church (7) R?M?Y??
28A) Tolerate taking two guineas to gangster in penury (10) ???G?R?O?D

[bibblebub]

18d) romance
28a) beggarhood (someone else got this earlier today)

[owllady]

Thankyou very much you have been a great help it is now finished

[bibblebub]

thank you for putting my mind at rest with the pirate clue