The Answers Are Superheroes 13/8/2022

[seaside29]

1. Bird in midst of famous explorer (6)
2. Whip Lennon hit (8)
3. Numb table game (8)
4. Draw new moon badly (6,5)
5. Beryl (without anger) (6,5)
6. American sword cog (10)
7. The unwieldy ship (3,4)
8. The mark the French pinch (3,7,5)
9. Venomous arachnid (5,5)
10. Back loo for Greek lord (8)

[Prudie]

I have just been so sad to trawl through a list of 200 superheroes on the internet and couldn't find one with count 6,5 apart from Wonder Woman which we've had already.

[cashier]

So did I Prudie, only found Spider Woman but can't fit it. Keep wondering about the brackets.

[Captain2]

Perhaps seaside could confirm the letter count; only reason I'm saying that is because No4 has the same count - wonder if No 5 is a mistype?

[mallyh]

5 aquaman .....aquamarine minus ire

[TheWinner]

mallyh, letter count is 6, 5.

[Patsy33]

I reckon Mallyh is right. Setter's error In letter count (possibly)

[mallyh]

hopefully seaside will reply x

[larkrise]

Yes mallyh, Beryl (without anger) is Aquaman. I'm doing the same quiz and the letter count is 7. A typo by seaside 29.

[seaside29]

Thank you for all your help