guardian 24695

[selbybee]

I must be thicker than everyone else as there are few questions on this.
F: Salt runs round part of Germany once when en fete (14)
Q: Solver's accepted backing support at last during excavation of rock (6,8)

[kayakamina]

F ... Ferro prussia te

Q ...Quar t z prop hy ry

[HTFC]

Q is quartz porphyry:

prop+z (backwards), in THY, in turn inside quarry (excavation).

Still stuck on F though.

[selbybee]

Many thanks. Typical Araucaria - words I have never met!

[dancecaller]

Those two answers help me with T.
I'm still stuck on A and Y though.
And I don't understand C

[dzug]

amboyna
yalu

both pretty obscure words...

C is easier:

cola is the drink - does that help, given that it's associated with D and W?

[dancecaller]

Thanks, I was fooled into assuming that the D and C weren't clues at all just (DC) that goes after the answer to W.
And I penciled in Cocacola as a drink, when I only had a C******A, and then forget that it I hadn't solved the clue.

I'd never have finished it without you all.