Stuck completely on 2. 8d - Country dance, hard, you picked up (3). I have h??. Thought it should be "hop" but then that would make the last letter a "p" which is also the last letter of my other problem as below, which doesn't make sense - at least, not to me. I just cannot see what else the answer to this clue could be though.
The other clue 10a is- End of concert fully putting out fine New York benefactress (5). I have t?l?? . I thought it would be t for end of concert, plus all for totally, then perhaps f for fine giv ing tallf, but I cannot find any reference to any benefactress under that name anywhere in my large reference collection nor on the Internet.
Puzzled barry - can anyone solve these 2 please??
10a - is tully.t(last letter of concert) +
ully. fully minus the f(fine)
Alice Tully was a new york benefactress
and has a concert hall named after her.