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[wizgran]

1. Cheesy public toilet (7) answer is cottage but can someone tell me why!
2. Sol-fa 6th on a bone (4) answer loas but why!
3. Left in spicy den for Tarka (4) answer Holt but why!
4. Hare's "previous " (4) answer form but why!

I would be grateful if someone could explain the above thanks

[ubasses]

historically public toilets in London were designed to look like cottages hence the term cottaging.
https://londonparticulars.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/a-nice-little-cottage/

[Sam1960]

1. cottage cheese, + double meaning

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/cottage

[ubasses]

spicy - hot put l(eft) inside. Holt is home of an otter. (Tarka the Otter is a novel)

[emeritus]

3 L (left) in HOT (spicy)

Tarka is an otter a holt is an otters den

[ubasses]

4 Where a hare has been lying, a shallow depression is made, which is a bit deeper and wider at the back than at the front. This is known as a 'form'.

[emeritus]

4 if something or someone hasDo relocate mate in tower above previous they have form. And is a hares den

[emeritus]

Sorry bit of cut and paste problem

[Jackdaw33]

2 Laos. La the sixth note of the sol-fa scale and Os, Latin for bone.

[wizgran]

Thankyou so much for explanations everyone.