The I Prize Cryptic Crossword 769 27 July 2013

[astrodan]

2D: 30 minutes in house or old city? (4-4) ?A?F?O?R
HALF-HOUR? I can see H or HO for house, and UR for old city, but not sure of rest...
3D: Some Antipodeans in their topless swimwear (6) ?S?I?S
20d: Straight piece of metal that's progressively twisted? (6) S?E?E?
SKEWER? Can't really see why apart from the surface meaning...

Thanks for reading

[mallyh]

20 half hour

[mallyh]

3d ossies (cossies)

[boxtops]

20d yes skewer, nothing cryptic in it for me - it's a twisted piece of metal

[boxtops]

I can't parse Half Hour further than you, either :-(

[boxtops]

PS Astro, next time make sure you post in crosswords... this is in Ed's Blog!

[astrodan]

Thanks mallyh and boxtops. I've only started using The AnswerBank, and came straight into a crossword question from an internet search. This didn't show the "enter your question here" box, which I found while looking in the Ed's blog. Now know you have to click on a topic first.

Should I re-post in the Quizzes and Puzzeles section, or get this deleted and then repost? I'd still like to get the parsing for 2D and 20D.

Thanks again

[glasman]

both ho and ur are half of hour

[factor-fiction]

Welcome to AB. The correct section would be Crosswords rather than Q&P but there's no need to repost it now you have an answer. You can always click 'report' and ask Ed to move it to Crosswords.

[mallyh]

you have the parsing for 2d ho+ur 30 mins half hour and i think 20d is just a straight forward question

[mallyh]

ps welcome x