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[lashley]

help please-all the answers are anagrams of somethimg urban

BOS?? 5

??N?ER 6

DR?VE 5

UN??T? 6

??ME?IS?S

any help welcome

[cashier]

2   Center?

How are they anagrams?

[FleshpotsOfDevon]

In the last clue in your list, the E is incorrect. 

[ProfessorMaisie]

VENDER is the third one, lashley (and yes, it's an anagram of a city).

[ProfessorMaisie]

Sorry, the 2nd one is... (can't even count up to 3 now}.

[lashley]

thanks-now have 4th one

[johnpiper]

On your list what was the first one -which might unlock your fourth

Presumably 38 across begins with M as this gives me an anagram of a city associated with witchcraft?

[FleshpotsOfDevon]

That's correct, although the answer isn't the one associated with withcraft. It's spelled the same but in a different place. (Yeah I know, I'm a pedant ha!) 

[ProfessorMaisie]

The first one is an odd word - it could be a googly in cricket or an ex-friend of Oscar Wilde.

You're right about the name but it isn't the one famous for its witches - there's another place more specific to the theme.

[johnpiper]

So if the first one is the friend of Oscar Wilde and it is an odd word then i am not sure that that can be turned into a City/town or if it can then its one i have never heard of. Crikey this is a hard one this week and if it it what i think it is then that gives

UNI?T? for the unclued 3 down

 

[Neveracrossword]

JP, 13 A  (in its original version) is fairly well-known.  And 3 D is really, really well-known... think Texas.

[FleshpotsOfDevon]

You're right about Oscar's bestie...now swap round the S and the I for a city in the Spud State. 

[ProfessorMaisie]

They're both right. Have you found what's common to all of them yet (and why the place of witches isn't one of them)? Once you have that you'll find a pretty short list of all of the unclueds.

[johnpiper]

sorted on 3D thanks

having a break and will return

and thanks re 13A

Will have to think about what is common to them

[FleshpotsOfDevon]

Take a break...capital idea! 

[johnpiper]

Yes ho ho!

Struggling with the last pair. have the 5,5 one and if your hint on the other thread is correct then i am looking for a 4 + 8. there are only 2 members of the set with 12 letters. One is 3 words and the other is one word. But i cant see a combination of two clued clues with those letters in. i must be going wrong soemwhere?

 

[Neveracrossword]

JP, in case it helps - you'rer actually looking for an 8,4. It is definitely in the list, alongside the others.