Spectator 2633

[johnpiper]

26a Urban guile represented by india in this place? [9]

?en??????

 

20d girl is first sons sibling? ?????l

 

 

[Floko]

26a Bengaluru

[Floko]

20d Isabel

[johnpiper]

Thanks

[johnpiper]

Two more clued to go

29A poet's transported working party (5)

??a?t

 

38A its colourful for polynesians have the lead cycling (5)

?ar??

[Neveracrossword]

29 An anagram of a word in the clue,leading to an old word for transported,charmed etc.

[Neveracrossword]

38 Pareu,  Polynesian clothing. Are, have, inside Up,have the lead.Cycling= Up's letters move. 

[johnpiper]

Thank you

does the second word in 9d begin with b and have 9 letters ending in l?

 

[Neveracrossword]

JP, glad those helped - and 'yes' to your query.

[u10]

Need some more help with the quote please. Author?

[upsetter]

@u10 - it was a reported conversation rather than a quotation.

Quite similar in a way to that between Eric Morcambe and Andre Preview.

 

[johnpiper]

My goodness thats cryptic. Im playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order?

 

[johnpiper]

So the words making up the quotation are not necessarily in the order they appear in the grid?

[upsetter]

The quotation is not in the order of the clues although the first four words are.
What I meant was that it was about music and was a conversation between a great musician and a philistine.

[johnpiper]

Thanks for all your help

crikey i am not sure how one is/was supposed to crack that

but its done now