Sunday World Cryptic

[Bernie]

Still struggling with this XWord
8d Fly up, starting to interweave (6) ?A???E
12a Captains entry paid off at the end (7)L???I?E
23a Making mock of design engineers without direction (8) ?N????N?
21a Turns back, takes short cuts (5) ?N?P?
Many thanks

[scorpiojo]

21 Snips - spins reversed

[eanceoil]

23 sneering, it's in the word engineers (you know there's a postal strike Bernie?)

21 snips

[dannyk13]

8d.Tangle

[eanceoil]

12 logpile ?

[Bernie]

Thank you all.
Yes eanceoil. I wonder will postal strike continue for long?
I dont see any prizewinners listed in Sunday World today. It happened a few times before.!!
Have a Good Day

[Euphful]

12a. Logfire

[poorclare]

When and where is the postal strike?. I received post yesterday, I have not heard of any strike and Royal mail have not e-mailed about one, (they e-mail
Monday to Friday about collections and deliveries)

[poorclare]

Ah see the strike is in the Republic of Ireland, I am in Belfast, shall give the RTE magazine a miss this week. but SW I can hand into the office in Belfast.
saves on stamps
Good luck everyone

[PLASTERED6]

Sunday world has two editions, North & South, each with separate entry forms, the North has a Belfast address & Winners from NI and vice versa.
I live in the North but depending on which shop I buy the paper , sometimes they deliver the Southern edition. So I now check before buying. There are NI winners listed in the Northern edition this week. Hope this helps.