Saga crossword November

[marg44]

Help please!
1a Alert in Birmingham for pair in boot (6) ?P???K
18a Like certain flowers in a batch - dead, gone over (9) A?R??????
20d Upset true Shakespearean character (7) ??E????
3d Ruler of Egypt's approving term over passionate record (9) ??E??????

[johnalex]

S pr ACK

[crofter]

1a Sprack = Alert in midlands
pr (pair) inside sack (boot)

[crofter]

'Morning ja!

[marg44]

Thanks both. You mean Sprack is a Midlands expression?

[johnalex]

Howdy Crofter !

[shaneystar2]

3d Amenhotep

[crofter]

yes marg - sprack is an expresion used in the Midlands!

[whitehill]

20 dn Laertes (set real upside down)

[marg44]

Thanks shaneystar!

[crofter]

Marg - 19d Do you have any more letters?

[marg44]

Hi Shaney
If 18a is ACROPETAL (?) and 22a is DECAGON then
19d (Prize for catching insect - this piggy's smaller than the rest (7)) is T?N????

Also need 26a Decline to take the favourite route - it's meandering (5,3) ending in T

[marg44]

I now have 26a - PETER OUT so 19d is T?N?O??

[shaneystar2]

Tantony ...or Anthony pig....the smallest pig in the litter
Chambers. Also a Tony is an award

[NILYA]

I think 18a may be acropetal - a crop (batch) etal (late)

[marg44]

Thanks shaney.

Now I have 5a Stimulant initially transported German poet (6) ??E?N?
and 5d Part of farm protected by those on the outside... (7) ??A?C?E

[shaneystar2]

5D is Tranche ...ends of those t and e round ranch

[shaneystar2]

5A Theine The (tea) stimulant T with Heine ...german poet

[shaneystar2]

I am stuck on 8D
I have ???L?I?A?D?

[marg44]

Yes, I have RALLENTANDO

Still stuck on 28a, 23d, 29a and 12a

[shaneystar2]

28A Mersey
23D Gaels
29A Shelta
12A Lymphad