daily mail saturday

[emmie]

can anyone help on a few please
26d 7
lenient, cryptic, name of the judge who gives lenient sentences?
-l-----
43a 7
leaning, cryptic, having a leaning towards working in finance
---k---

[Ouzel]

43a Banking

[Fibonacci]

26d clement ?

[ubasses]

clement
banking

[emmie]

thank you

[shooty]

yielding ?

[emmie]

it is clement, as fits
few more, just can't see
12d 4
cruel, cryptic, cruel soldiers holding a captive
-e--

27d 7
keeping, cryptic, set out to put gold and silver into safekeeping
-t-r--- storing??

[Ouzel]

27d Storage

[Ouzel]

12d Mean ?

[shooty]

storage
or + ag (gold and silver)

[shooty]

mean is correct

[shooty]

men holding 'A'
my internet is so effing slow right now : (

[emmie]

nearly done,
14a 7
do well, cryptic, right about the son, will do well
p------ prosper??

[shooty]

yes. proper around S(on)

[emmie]

thanks one and all, 168 clues, get a bit bogged down sometimes
now done.

[shooty]

I know what you mean, stopped doing sat xword as it got too laborious

[emmie]

good word laborious, challenge, sometime maddening.