crossword help

[janeevans]

1)Rent much hillier areas than East Anglia-severe disappointments (8) L?T?????

2)Local head is cross over awful acting(7) ????H??

3)Regular user of footpaths never seems to come to the point (7) U?????R

4)Progressive and intelligent, taking back older more environmental forms of transport (5) ???R?

[kayakamina]

Let Downs

[kayakamina]

4 Smart Trams

[kayakamina]

3 St utterer

[Dinkypuzzled]

3. Rambler ?

[cheaton]

2. could this be gnathic? h + acting.. gnathic means to do with the jaw.....

3 seems to be rambler

[kayakamina]

Jane 2 obviously ends with HAM ( bad actor)

[kayakamina]

Rambler sounds good but you said it started with U

[janeevans]

Thanks everyone, I will check No 3's letters, and yes No 2 does end HAM (got the M now) How about:

5) Defect is apparently as low as you can go (4) ???W

6) Relative tranquility initially warrants government funding (5) ?R?N?

[Dinkypuzzled]

6. Grant

5. Flaw - sounds like floor.

[kayakamina]

Grant

Flaw sounds like floor

[janeevans]

Kayakamina. It would start with an U if your Hocus Pocus is right, That clue was: Find? just a confused horned hoax (5,5) ?O??? ?O??? If it is rambler when it would look like this: ?O??? ?O?R?

[kayakamina]

O Jane ! It's back to square one. You've now added the word horned which you didn't have yesterday!

Find? Just a confused (horned) hoax. (5.5)

[janeevans]

Kayakamina. Thanks so much for your help. Find... = HOXNE HOARD

[kayakamina]

Now we have the right letters.

Territorial atomic group in description of the process of birth NATIONAL NAT ION AL

Local head is cross over awful acting FORD HAM