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40a Rampager's name largely connected with city (6) ?A?T?R .

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Sunday Times Mephisto 2597 Sunday June 6th 2010

Last letter: 24d Cap on Baptist church? Not half (5). ?ERET. Must be 'beret', but how is 'eret' half a church?

crockshard

Mephisto

Finished, but don't understand 23d: Stars the French lap up. Must be 'lepus', but why?

crockshard

Mephisto 2595

Can someone please explain to me 32a? (A little set cry of grief fills Pericles, for example). 'Diorama' is a little set, but I don't understand the rest!

eac2337

Mephisto 2595

8dn Plants in double file above old fashioned resorts (8) Stuck on this one.

crockshard

Times 871

33d Film showing end of Olympian run (T?E ?O?E? ?U?H). I thought it was 'The Gold Rush', but now doesn't fit with 47a. And 48d Defensive blunder by inexpert player is character forming (A?H?M).

crockshard

Times 871

27d National union man is on expenses mounting cases ?N?S?S. Is it 'enosis' (Greek union)? Or 'onuses'?...

crockshard

Times 817

23a Demos we should fear at the present time? ?R?E?S

houghofurr

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1a notes high dislike of unions (8) ??????m? 14a Advisors from manycountries joined to flog gold in firms (11) ??????l???s thanks...

crockshard

Times 24538

19a Card game my granny passes about . 'Cooncan' is a card game, but what has my granny to do with it, please?

MarkRae

Saturday Times Cryptic 24538

22d Report making little splash quietly cut (4) _L_P Is it CLAP, CLIP or something else...?...

magistra

mephisto

23 ac Sibyl in error rises with me leaving before dad. -OL-SP- 23 D Chose back of a leaf to spread out --TED Opted? This would make 23 ac begin with OO 26 ac Term for smoochy lyric went in Spenser...

crockshard

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22a Hairy pair of investigators getting their ends away (5) D?C?Y. Must be 'dicey (=hairy)', but why? CID + eYEs, but why pair?...

panofsky

Times 24520

1d Poser sinks bottom right in the dessert! (5) p - e - - Help! Can't work this one out at all......

crockshard

19d Curt historian picked up peaceful woman - a real pickup (7) ?IV?NER. Livener? (historian Levi, but whence the REN?).. Diviner? (DI, peaceful woman?)..... And 20a Conjecture informally about fare?...

crockshard

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7d Either half of hardback (5) S?E?N.

patsyjmdc

times 4374

21 across: Tapesdtry depicting river ebbing into marsh (7) *O*E*I* Is it Gobelin - if so cant understand why 27 down: Bottom of the barrel (4) *U*T Is it Butt? Thanks...