Down to the last three! 11a Reads new second Greco-Latin version of Ezra: e?d?a? Anagram of Reads & something? 4d Sounds like a bird one met in the great hall at Univ: a?l?. 25d Creation featuring...
Struggling with a couple of quotations that I can't track down.14a If she had a petticoat over her n???? ???f? that was all - Conrad, The Rover. Night something? 27a On ghosts of servers and ??????...
9a Sort of groom embraced by fit Maid Marian?: ?a?c?m?? - comb inside another word? Can't find anything that fits. 4d Avenger chosen by a supreme deity: e??????. 12 Fast work made order of disorder:...
7d Sound of heavy smokers' chests:c???e?s. 1d Admission, in case dodgy Conservative succeeded: ?c???s - access? Still struggling with 24a, Trump's position regarding White House: "Expose result":...
24a Trump's position regarding White House: "Expose result": o?t?o?e I'm assuming it starts with out, but can't decide which of the many options for the end of the word is the right one! 7d One who...
3d "Be - , seek husband,wife, whether to pour . . . .", Flight into reality, Rosemarie Rowley: d?s?i?e?t. Blanche who has designs on Rochester home with grand drive: ?n???m. 7d Aussie hooligan in...
Down to last three! 8a A child with a public face:p???o?a. 1d Earth-moving producer of mining output: h???e anagram? 20d "A ?????? in the bush is worth two on your hands" James Thurber: ?u?d?n....
1a Doolittle's figurehead represented in gentle hype:??l?n ?? ????? 7d A ghost with power in Gibson's thriller: ????? ??u???? 10d Running pirate's lot is to meet a monarch in this story of maritime...
Answers are people who have broken the law, whether for good or bad reasons, but not for Covid.
It's a monkey business. 4,5
First Christmas present in the mucky version - a vintage car 4,7,2,8...
I've just seen a reply on here saying that the answer to 26a is Ironic, and another saying that 16d is Diabolic - which is the answer I have, and means that 26a starts with a c!
12a Hooker should be good at it: h?e?i?g. 23a Big Daddy's boys, Brick and Gooper, clip it to a tea: p???i?t. Presumably this relates to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but I can't work it out. 24d Baldwin's...
Does anyone know of any problems with Amazon today? I'm trying to confirm the despatch of a book I've sold, I'm putting all my details in but the On-time Password doesn't arrive, neither on the land...
23d Food sent round hospital has lactoprotein taken out: ?a?c?s?i?e ?t?p?t. It's looks as though something's wrong, but I can't see what. 45d Soldiers ordered to carry kit: b?i???e. 54a. Absurd how...
24a Ten soldiers return seal: ??g?e?. 16d Pursues picking up skill by, at first, creating easy steps: ?r?c??. Posted this earlier, but it seems to have vanished into the ether.
We've been having problems when watching our recordings of Countdown, the picture breaks up and the sound stutters. On one occasion it was so bad that we gave up trying to watch. We are using Freesat,...