MEPHISTO 2596

[yellow11]

HELP PLEASE AND EXPLANATIONS
1A SHARK HAS STAKE IN KEEPING dONNY DISTRACTED 8 pE?????G
11a seltzer? it's inappropriate for soldiers once on guard 10 ?????IT??S
29a odd,non-euroean type of car,saving energy,hitting tree? 10 ?UE???T???
25a at blast getting out of a federal community 6 ??A???
thanks

[Dinkypuzzled]

11a. Strelitzes (anag.)

[dr b]

1 pe nnydo g

[kayakamina]

29a Quer citron

25a Statal

[bibblebub]

1a pennydog?

29a quercitron
25a statal

[kayakamina]

Your 25a should read Last not blast

Anag AT LAST = Statal

[yellow11]

29a now got

[lardhelmet]

What's a pennydog bibble? Have never heard of the other two either but didn't want to show my higorance

[yellow11]

many thanks

[dr b]

penny-dog, "noun The tope or miller's-dog, a kind of shark."

tope is "noun A small, rough-skinned, widely distributed shark (Galeorhinus galeus) having an elongated conical snout."

[bibblebub]

pennydog - a kind of shark found on the South coast of Britain: the tope.

http://dictionary.die.net/penny%20dog