8d: Bag rat that is heading for bait entering this dirty vessel (7,3)
I have W?E?L?E, ?I?
and
16d: Assist health worker after day in bed (8)
I have ?E?R?E?D
Groan.............
Last two giving me severe grief:
5ac: Italian river is a sort of imperial souvenir (8) - T?B?R?A?
and
21ac: An Irishman in a Roman vessel (6) - ?A?I?A
Tiberias? Patina? WHY??...
Stuck, stuck, stuck.... 2d) Two southern US states require 30 supporters (3-3). I have ?A?-??A, and 30 is TEMPERANCE 12ac) Pin Margaret to the stage! (6) I have ?E??? and 8d) Exercises time in...
Last one: stuck, and I really do need to get a life today: 62ac) Bloody hell, Boris finally gets in! (Independent Conservative Radical) (7). I have *R*S*I* - it feels like CRISPIN, but I just...
A wholesale job lot this morning I fear. Unsolved clues in every quadrant. 1 across. Clue: Something like a monitor screen initially unpacked again US manufactured (6). I have: ?G???A. I thought maybe...
Last one: 8d) Folklorist somehow unleashes author of Mother Courage (14).
I have -R-M-E-S-A-S-N, and I can't for the life of me see this one (surely Bert Brecht must feature somehow?)....
Am vexed/puzzled by last one - 7d =Stevenson in Samoa?(8). The answer, I think, ought to be Tusitala (RLS' honorary name in Samoa) but I have 'Berlin' for 10ac (It was a game to Deighton) giving me...
27ac: Two works of Disraeli introduce first class return to old port (7).
I have S-D-N-A, and I am guessing SIDONIA, but with no idea as to correct parsing......
1down = Slogan caused Elia's card-player to weep? (6,3): it has to be BATTLE CRY (B?T?L?,C?Y), but I have no idea why? Anyone enlighten me, please, then maybe I can go and get a life...
Last two: 19d = Arse gives rise to waffle and viscous mixture (6) I have ???B?G which I suppose suggests GASBAG but I don't quite see it; and 21ac = Bureaucrats: "terrible leader, Miliband ultimately,...