Radio Times 43

[Saint76]

City's quiet unending attraction ?u???i
push carbon through front ?o?c?
rural deity starts attacking animal life ?a?n?
cleaning compound for tin soldiers when trapped ?o?a?
number to moan about pig g?n?e?
thanks

[BillStreet]

Mumbai
Borax
Gannet

[mallyh]

3 fauna

[dannyk13]

3.Fauna

[Mamyalynne]

Force

[Aeolus]

MUM BAI(T)
FORCE
FAUNA
2d. ??
11a. ??
Please add clue numbers.

[dannyk13]

2Force

[Aeolus]

BillStreet: Would you be so kind as to explain GANNET? I can see the pig link but nowt else.
P.S. Any relation to the Bill Posters who is always being prosecuted?

[janbee]

ten backwards is number, nag is moan

[Aeolus]

Thank you janbee. I'm to old for this modern stuff where about means backwards. Missed it completely thanks again.

[dannyk13]

Aeolus. about is hardly modern e.g about turn.

[Aeolus]

"About" may be a preposition or an adjective but it cannot live alone as you have shown. It's the same lazy compiling that that accepts any word beginning with that letter as a clue to single letter instead of a recognized abbreviation.
Still, I've learnt to live with it as life's to short; especially at my age. Just missed it this time.

[dannyk13]

How did we do about turns in the army?

[Aeolus]

By qualifying "about" with "turn"; just as we did in the ROYAL Air Force.
Presumably you didn't give your rifle to the kids for Christmas every time someone shouted "PRESENT"?

[Mamyalynne]

About


BRITISH
used to indicate movement within a particular area.
"she looked about the room"
synonyms: around, round, throughout, over, through, all over, in all parts of, on every side of, encircling, surrounding; More
3.
BRITISH
used to express location in a particular place.
"rugs were strewn about the hall"
synonyms: around, in circulation, in existence, current, going on, prevailing, prevalent, widespread, pervasive, endemic, happening, in the air, abroad
"there was a lot of flu about"
used to describe a quality apparent in a person.
"there was a look about her that said everything"
adverb
adverb: about

[dannyk13]

That's just a bit facetious

[Aeolus]

So "there was a lot of flu about" means backward flu?
Nothing in your dictionary extract gives "about" as "backwards".
In fact it is always qualified.
Let's just agree to differ.

[dannyk13]

Good idea.