NS 444. Loving these crosswords, but/and finding this one tough.Help!!
1ac) Establishment producing fine cocktails (4,4)
13d) Expert putting forward article, enthusiastic about port (9)...
There's always one. I just can't crack this last poxy clue: 12) Unconventional dresser with fixed box (2,3) I seem to have T?,S?T, so it looks like TO SET (tv set, fine) but how to parse the rest, if...
Please help me with this last one: I really need to go out and get some of this sunshine...
9ac) North Indian city district mostly surrounded by mountains (7)
I have B?N?R?S....
3D) Misbehaving, a deputy lays on wine in ancient drama (4-7,4)
I have H?C?-T?E?D?Y,?L?Y, and assume it’s HOCK-TUESDAY PLAY, but I’d love someone to fully parse it for me....
The clues and grid sadly do not match up today. 13 and 26 across are two obvious examples. Have been in touch with TLS editor but it’s hard to see how a corrected grid can be made to work. O...
As usual, it’s the little ones:
13ac) Commodore’s prime location for seafaring work (4)
O?O?
And
20ac) Parade soldier’s left side in a book (4)
?A?E.
Au secours, mes braves, svp......
I am stumped by NW corner. Mostly by
10ac) Infection girl got from playful Welsh captain (8).
I have ???E?L?N, and can only see MAGELLAN.
I still can’t see the parsing for PEDALLER, either......
Stumped: 9ac) Annex is about Scotsman who wrote essays (10) I have A???S?N?A? and it looks for all the world like ABYSSINIAN, and I know Johnson’s Rasselas, but I cannot parse it. Annex?? Help,...
Am almost done - a really brilliant seasonal crossword, sadly Atlas's last - but just cannot crack these last two (and they might be thematic - Christmas period - lacking a definition): 24d) Working...
Can't winkle out last two weemies: 8d) Who's left darling daughter out? (4). I have ?E?R and am stumped, unless it's LEAR, and 28ac) A book about a drug (4) for which I have S?O? and assume it's SOMA,...
Urgh! Don't like this one. (I guess it must be Key Novel.) Before I make the fire with it, can someone just give me a plausible explication of 14ac) - Staff accompanying this emperor would be from the...
Completely blanked on 7 down -from the Shakespearian theme on several other clues I feel it should be something to do with King Lear, but I can't fathom what. The clue is Author's perception necessary...
Stymied - last two: 4d) Stars making one tense playwright (5). I have O?T?N, and assume ORTON, but dunno why, and 16d) Book lacking energy in backing a Roman soldier's mother (8). ?O?U?N?A, and I have...
