Saga October.

[tony keates]

Am stuck on:-

(1) 2d. Tailor lined hats and hood ((9). I have N?????A??

(2) 24a. inker said to be both smalland retiring (7). I have D???C?I

(3) 19d. Trying not to irritate everybody (7). I have I?K?O?T

(4) 17d. WWII fighter's language caught when hanging around (7). I have ??I???T

Can you please help?

[ineedahobby]

24a  Didcoi

[shaneystar]

24 A i think is Didicoi a word for a tinker or itinerant type of person. Didi (small) coy (shy)

[tony keates]

Thanks for that - very quick! I see I mis-spelt "tinker" and the answer you probably meant was didicoi.It helps a lot!

[ineedahobby]

somethings wrong in 19d because the answer is irksome

[shaneystar]

17 d Chindit C and T from caught and Hindi

[tony keates]

Thankyou Shaneystar and Ineedahobby. The answer "irksome" should have been obvious. I had, for 26a. Not a patch on it. The "it" should be "me". Thanks again.  

[ineedahobby]

the only thing I can think of to fit in that last one is nightcaps, but I cant justify it at all. 

[Quizmonkey]

It will probably be an anagram of lined hats (as in "Tailor the letters in lined hats...") to give a word for hood - but I can't see it

[ineedahobby]

In that case my anagram solver brings up Nithsdale?

Still oblivious though lol

[ineedahobby]

lol again just looked it up in chambers, its an 18th century womans riding hood apparently

[tony keates]

I thought 2d might be an anagram but if so it escapes me! Nithsdale is attractive but as a place in Scotland it takes a bit of bending to make it fit the clue!

[Quizmonkey]

Brilliant - what teamwork!! What's your anagrammer, out of interest? I'm away from my professional crossword compiling software!

[ineedahobby]

I use chambersharrap.com when I'm in a pickle, and I agree this sort of teamwork is what Answerbank is all about.

Hip Hip...... 

[tony keates]

Brilliant ineedahobby !  I think you've hit the jackpot with Nithsdale. Thanks.