crossword

[pega]

grateful for help

blacken, camouflaging a red tinge 9 ????????e

arrived returning a sickly shrub 8 ???????a

for this creature,larger amounts offered to me not accepted 9 m?????e??

thanks

[shaneystar]

Think the second one is camellia

[kosoro]

Shrub.... Camellia

[shaneystar]

first one ...denigrate

[kosoro]

Monotreme

[BigMac]

Have we moved to the Sunday Times, following the repeat in the Torygraph at the weekend?

[BigMac]

Or perhaps I mean the STel cryptic and not the STim at all? I'm very confused, it's late, the red wine was wonderful but perhaps the digestif was a mistake...