Dundee Courier sat. March 21st.

[barbieri]

Completely strips of french plunder, (8), ???p?i?s

The practice of saving a rock plant, 96), T?????

To get back after this is a disadvantage, (4), D???

Metal worker comes to grief with money, (5,7),

???s? ????d?r

[dunfermline]

Draw

[Leo-Bloom]

Despoils

[ladyalex]

rock plant ...THRIFT

[barbieri]

Many thanks everyone!!!

[ladyalex]

Happy to help ....cannot get your metal worker, though ...:-))

[squarebear]

Me neither although I think the 1st word is BRASS. (metal and money)

[Leo-Bloom]

Knife Grinder? But then the 's' would have to be wrong.

[Leo-Bloom]

Brass Founder.

[Leo-Bloom]

Saw Bras Founder by standing on the shoulders of earlier poster, Squarebear .

[Leo-Bloom]

Squarebear,
'standing on the shoulders' comes fron Issac Newton. "If I have saw further it is because I have been standing on the shouilders of giants."