Daily Mail 12.08.09

[denby04]

Confirmation Please.
17 down: Oriental queen I promoted to lead country (4) I?A? (Iraq?)
24 down: Weird place for eagle's nest, say (5) E?R?E )eerie or eyrie?)
11 down: Place for officer without tenant's support (4) ?I?U (situ?)
Many thanks in advance.

[Jumbuck]

17d IRAN queen = rani, so move the i to the front

24d EERIE - the 'say' part of the clue is next to 'eagle's nest'

11d LIEU - lieu(tenant)

[denby04]

Thanks Jumbuck - nearly wasted a stamp.

[Jumbuck]

You're welcome...

...but if you're going to spend money on a stamp for it then I only have 99.9% confidence in my answer for 24d.

[denby04]

Hmmm I am having second thoughts on that one too.

[Mctavish]

i have also gone for EERIE

[Heaton21]

I ended up with E-R-E so have gone with EERIE.

[denby04]

I'm sticking to eerie - thanks to all

[Mctavish]

If it turns out to be EYRIE we will all have to put in a joint complaint and ask for our postage money back !!

[Jobowo]

Has to be EERIE as "weird" and the fact that after eagles nest there is 'say' indicating it sounds like.