Am I the only one struggling with this? still got loads of gaps, & no idea on the quote! 20a Figure a place like Kyiv shows resolve: t??????? 27a Drink, darling? It'll help you pass water 6... ...
48d Festive tinsel lacking last month's speech: ?r?t?a? 24a Get ready, keeping old sort of security device: ?a?l?c? - presumably ends in -lock, but can't work out what the start is.
Going really well, but have hit a roadblock! 27a Dart and Bill are muddled: ?a?d?p???? 19d Poet kept watch over king: ?i?g?? 20d Jesus, that is her first name: ?g?t?? - Agatha fits, but can't see... ...
Stuck in bottom r h corner. 22a ***, having swallowed second drug sample: t????. 16d Stiff finally, you pay special attention at climax:?n???d?n?. 23d each male in pen is lustful: ??e?m?
27a Tubercular lungs are cured by drying up and gradually ???h???a?? their happy owner . . . . (Camus). 23d Chap who arranged service in part of hospital: ?r?? 8d Booker-winner Prudence stored in safe...
It seems I'm the only one struggling with this! Down to last two - 26a Dog appears with singer on blockbuster movie: ?a?s?? 19d Crawlers going round ground, etc, making faces.
2d High duration tax: t???a?e Tonnage? 5d Eliot's read her book, too untidy to become Mrs. Casaubon: ????t??? ??o?p? 6d One loved Longaville, the other Surface: ????a. 5d must relate to Middlemarch,...
Have completed the body of the puzzle, just need to fill in the letters round the edge. I thought it might start "As if the Labour party have got to show . . ." but there's no f in the list of letters...
