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Need to stop staring at this last one: 4d) Italian's farewell to Roman princess noted for beauty includes diamonds (5) I have A?D?O, and it seems like ADDEO as in It. goodbye + D for diamonds, but...

Tls 1303

2d An ancient fool, often found on the Bench (3,4) T?E ?I?E 16a I cringe before a princess represented in Shakespeare (6) ?A?N?A Help much appreciated.

New Statesman 472

Has become one of my favourites, and this one's a cracker. I have been stymied for several days on two last intersecting clues: 15d) Flap greeting overwhelming rule of descent (9) I have A???T?I?E and...

Tls 1299

Groan. Have just realised I'm also flummoxed by 17d) Woman of Troy? It's always Gill or Dale. (8) I have ?E?R?E?E, and assume it's EVER????. Help, please!...

Tls 1299

Hey-ho: it's that "last one & I am bamboozled again" time. 10ac) Poet and clergyman Thomas is a standard Dickens character (7) I have ? (or maybe E, if it's DIRT for the Fat Owl of The Remove)?R?E?L....

Private Eye 662

Groan! All done, except this: 3d) Car fitted with a TV? Male habit (6). I have C?A?A?, and can't see past CHADAR, but I can't fully parse it. Grrrrr. Au secours, mes braves, SVP....

Tls

Grrr. It's that time again. Sailed through the rest, and have come to the usual grinding halt with this one last clue which has me utterly stumped. 8down) Beauty's budding offspring (5) I have L?N?Y...

Private Eye 655

One day, one day... Stuck fast on last one: 1ac) Maybe Sandi Toksvig takes local name (6) I have D?P?N?....

Tls 1281

2d) Women, Greek, with one eye, terminally aged (6). I have G?A?A?, and (as always) am stuck on this last little meanie......

Tls 1279

Stuck on last one. Just for a change... 23d) Ending of epistle that's key (3) I seem to have E?C, and am flummoxed....

Tls 1278

Last one, as always, perplexing me: 19d) One European writer of a number not fully supporting 'Leave'. (7) I have ?O?T?E, and presume it's GOETHE, with GO = Leave, but as to the rest? An anagram of...

Tls 1278

Last one andI can concentrate on the cricket. 16 down Dramatist’s short production, the noblest Roman’s brother is missing(7)H.A.T.S...

Everyman

Another very slightly odd one this week, I thought. Or rather, think, as I still can't parse 13ac) Final half of bowling, champ's losing heart a lot (4,4) I have ?E?Y,?U?H, and it looks like being...

Tls 1277

Done, but just really still niggled by 1ac) Cubist I wounded at fight where Florentine’s to be found? (7,3) It’s BISCUIT (anag) and, I suppose, ROW (fight), and a florentine is indeed a bikky, but...

Tls 1275

Could some really kind person out thereplease just put me out of my misery by parsing 7d) Nothing in Franzen's volume is idle (6) I have L?I?E? and it has to be LOITER as in the verb, idle, and O is...

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21a Loman's rejected promotion leading to nothing (5) ??N?A 19d Story about one who was killed by Agamemnon (6) ???T?S...

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Good grief, but this one has been thorny! I am now reluctantly prepared to concede defeat with 10ac) Senator and heretic in some classical verse (8) for which I seem to have ?E?A?I?E? I can only see...

New Statesman

Stumped by this beauty (the overall theme hangs around Pete Seeger, incidentally): 17d) Openings of completely original, folksy guitar parts for "Little Boxes" (8) I have ?O???E?S, although I suspect...

Tls 1271

Just discovered this one abandoned unfinished, and would appreciate closure with - 4d) Name for a character in Bleak House rather than Marysde Conde's Tree of Life (6,5) I have L?G?R?,V?T?E and 5d)...

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Sod's Law: almost done, but utterly baffled by the very first clue - 1ac) Little Elizabeth's are shortly to reach Bishop about writer Angela (6). Anyone?...

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