Tls 1399

[yellow11]

help please and parsing
`a right old stick critic's written about playwright 6,6 ??R???/?????? harold pinter?
9a hero of a patrick white novel 9 ??V?????? voss somewhere?
11a young winsor gent or fellow,new in local school 6 ??N??? eton??????
12a cook i aim endlessly to snog in a holiday tale of lost innocence8 ?????I??
thanks

[Mamyalynne]

try again...

(i) ai(m) to snog, anag

[CrikeyMoses]

Mine or yours both work at least! It's an awkwardly worded clue in the first place.

[CrikeyMoses]

Thanks Bob and Mamya. At least we agree it's not right as it was.
Wasn't it Broteas too who had Guinea for Ghana a few weeks ago. There was no acknowledgment of that mistake in the paper that I saw.

[Mamyalynne]

Both 'ends' off 'I aim' , leaves ai

[bobbinwales]

Yes namyalynes works.

[bobbinwales]

End of, as some might say

[CrikeyMoses]

No, sorry. I don't think that was the setter's intention and I don't think you can have more than one word treated as something with two ends in crosswords. Otherwise you could have 'Stupidly I am going to debate endlessly' as an anagram of 'amgoingtodebat' by the same principle.
I think Broteas meant ai(m) and has miscounted the i's.

[Mamyalynne]

Fair enough.