Daily Mail Wednesday

[Hussar]

Can you kindly help with two from yesterday, please:-
26 down Call up first woman to receive fine 5 letters E R-E
11 down Propane perhaps turned to zero makes pudding 4 letters -A-) I've put SAGO?

Thank you

[fiction-factory]

SAGO is fine- gas backwards + 0

[dannyk13]

Evoke
Sago

[fiction-factory]

First woman might be EVE but i can't see the answer

[mallyh]

26 evoke

[Toorak]

Evoke - eve (first woman) with ok (fine) inside

Gas turned is sag + o ( zero)

[mallyh]

gas reverser plus o

[fiction-factory]

danny's Evoke is right- I was trying to work with the given pattern

[mallyh]

oops reversed x

[Hussar]

Thank you fiction and danny. but that puts 29 across out I had VAPOUROS and can't see it now!

[dannyk13]

Vaporous

[mac44]

vaporous

[fiction-factory]

Yes, vaporous is one of those words like humorous where a U seems to be lost for some reason when the OUS is added to vapour/humour.

[mallyh]

invisible yet again lol

[Hussar]

Thanks again danny, mac and mallyh - it would have helped if I had spelled Vaporous correctly!