Puzzle complete, but 1ac Charlie's ban on banter, perhaps ...(7) must surely be with the letters I've got HALFWIT. Can see definition, and wit = banter, but how can half = ban? Thanks, in advance, to...
Let's be clear - the quotes now doing the rounds are from a news report TWO YEARS AGO which was SLAMMED AS INACCURATE by the BBC Trust. The Tory spin doctors have shamefully used a terrorist attack...
1d restaurant's tips for sorbet written in pen b???r? 5d sophisticated evil is badly disrupting police department c???????d 6d equipment that's ruined a plan I hear, below standard p???????n?l?? 8d...
Have completed the puzzle, but would like to know how to parse two of the themed clues: 22ac Exceptionally large.(7) 23ac Nice setter right to carry up PCs etc (7) Both are celestial bodies and I get...
Am about ready to fill in grid, but can only see two places for three-letter words - both across, mid grid. But there are 3 clues requiring 3 letters. Any help, please?
could anyone help with 2d and 9a from sundays everyman please.
9abusy part of year heading off with self confidence 2 3 2
2d piece of news for couple.
thank you...
Stuck on last two, help appreciated.
6ac Spike Milligan's third one (4) L?C?
27ac Tongue in, well inside case of strawberries, beginning to eat (9) S?R?A??E?E...
"Extremely cold chest", Mark said. (6) -r-t-c. This surely must be ARCTIC, but can someone parse for me please? The only thing I can think of is that an arctic must be a brand/ mark for a chest...
Can someone take pity on me and give me a couple of the placed clues.... I have human league in and manfred mann but no others and I don't know where to start. Been looking at it for ages.
12a - Skimpy undergarment as festive toy! (5) ???d? 26a - Girl taken in by spiritual break (70 ?o???a? 9d - empty zone with reverse ring comes to nought (4) ???o 22d - Spill liquid iron weapon (5)...
4d. Swallow, bird coming up after rook and gull, say? I have CONSUME - emu reversed after CON = rook. But anyone know where the 's' comes from and how gull fits into the parsing. Thanks.
Polish side-switching is repellent (5). I have GROSS but not sure why? Also, like others here, I can only find five of the six 'bottom' solutions 'not further defined' in the rubric: Nates, Bahookie,...
