Daily Mail Giant

[corylus]

30 across: Begins to be upset when one gets into difficulties (7)


Can't see this at all!

[Lie-in King]

Straits - 'i' (one, in) 'starts' (begins, upset)

[corylus]

Thanks LIK, never spotted that, so what's 38 across? The nut and the bean: food for vegetarians (5) I'm stuck on this part of the c/word

[Mamyalynne]

Pattern for that one?

[MargoTester]

I've got onion

[corylus]

????n

[Mamyalynne]

Ah yes, all slang words for the head.

Ta

[MargoTester]

The letters I had o?o?n

[MargoTester]

34d sOnnet
26d madNess
Giving the O at the start and the N at the end

[Mamyalynne]

It works - nut/bean/onion all slang for head and foods a vegetarian could eat.

[MargoTester]

Thought that was all it could be

[corylus]

Thanks everybody for your help, my brain is obviously seizing up! Don't know why I spend my time doing this crossword, should be easy after the daily cryptic one in the Mail that has increasingly obscure clues.

Happy Christmas to you all and thanks. Bye

[daddyjoe]

Crazy person, though with a first-
class mind

[Toorak]

Crackbrain