Guardian 26095

[neversaydie]

(1) With her fashionable pork-pie hat (7)
I have t?p?a?i
Any help please

[janbee]

topiari?

[neversaydie]

Can you explain please

[janbee]

No, It was just a guess really. I've been thinking more about it and think it MAY be TOPKAPI. Just another guess though. Hopefully someone more awake than I can help you. Good luck. xx

[neversaydie]

I'm afraid that too, for me, needs explanation

[greencj01]

I'm going for TOPKAPI as its a palace but past that struggling to parse.

I can get close to parsing TIPHANI as an obscure girl's name ...

Any ideas?

[roslyn251254]

topkapi + her anagrammed makes pork-pie hat

[greencj01]

Thank you!

[Svejk]

Nice one, roslyn.

[martalex]

I have Topkapi. (?)

I need help with 21: "Mount with vigor outside in a state"

W?E?N?M

any help much appreciated, thanks.

[dannyk13]

Vietnam (Vim outside etna)

[scorpiojo]

Vietnam vim. etna

[maurice]

Just a general hint: online now (but not at midnight) is a hint you all need for 5 solutions ---another Graudian glitch!

[martalex]

Thank you for the "Vietnam" answers,

I had crash-down instead of crash-dive, why I don't know! :)

Puzzle completed now, appreciate your help as am a yank trying to do brit puzzles.

[ngotorosa]

Topkapi a palace in Istanbul

[furious]

26 095 11ac Poor A levels, Sir. V-R-----E-
Any ideas, please

[jno]

versailles? These are palaces, right?

[Cryptomaniac]

Yes - and this is simply an anagram of A levels sir. Thanks to Roslyn for parsing TOPKAPI (which I had got, but couldn't understand why).