birds and bees

[granny grump]

Well I think I've got - by george she's got - thanks to the patient explanations. I am stumped on some of the actual answers and would be grateful for some help.

7a careless ????LES? - I thought of tactless or careless?

8a Kylie ????ERA?

11a In fact ???ECT?????

13b & c Devised by George W Bush (2 answers)
????STE? & ???KET ( I beleive that the fist answer is Tungsten)

20a More than half a metre B??CCI?

31a & b Where the bells ring ????EDI??? & ???ITI???

37a This stopping place ??TSP??

Many thanks in anticipation

[york310]

8.boomerang
37a hotspot

[Postdog]

Kylie means Boomerang, and the stopping place could be Pitstop (maybe the p is wrong)

[megellan]

31a

Think: : "Oranges & lemons
Say the Bells of St. Clements"

[granny grump]

Thankyou york310 and Postdog

[megellan]

Re my previous posting.
This was meant as a clue not the answer

[granny grump]

thank you megellan - a brilliant clue

[brokenbank]

37a is not Hotspot..........follow the birds clue and it must start with an O (Outspan ----a stopping place)

Read "This Year's Theme" on Page 1 and a Chambers dictionary is essential to check the word meanings.

The setter uses obsure words every year, which take some finding.

[granny grump]

Thank you brokenbank I will double check

[slipnot]

20a braccia

[brokenbank]

Braccio