Anyone out there care t give me a clue to this 5, O, G business? I know I could cheat, but that would be giving in. |I love Paul usually, but sometimes he is really perverse!
7a One way to get 30 American instead of English cows (9) I have 30a but I don't think that's the 30 referred to...) 10,25a No posh car for Ringo Starr? Gee, bad day for him today (5.6) Quite good...
8 across Lackey following party rule (8) Have -O---I-N
2 Down Primarily stylish bird, fashonable type (7) Have S---G-R
Last two and I'm sure they are staring me in the face.......
Last two:
24a Letters help to follow a leading parliamentarian's humble beginnings (8) A---A-E-
19d Grab Skillets (4,2) -N--/-P
Answers please, to help me stop wasting any more of the day!...
23a Spirit imbues leader of ceremonies with sacred (blue). -E-A-C-O-- 4d Argentinian red on sale drunk in (blue) cliub -H-L-E- (Blue) force cut up rocks -O-I-E 22d Partner of (blues) spinning coats...
Three to go.
27a "Thus screening gull eating head of moorhen is graphic". (9)
18d Top cryptic is, for starters, a grand to compose (15)
26a Bird - be a 17 (5). (17 is "chicken"...
9D:
"Finds the ark built right with branches outside". Guess this must have "boughs" wrapped around smething, and answer probably not a palace...what a charmless puzzle this is!...
12ac Good behaviour, we hear, in areas around stations (6) ?a?o?s
24ac Leave droppings of carnivore, small one (4) ??a?
24dn Body a medic's turned over (4)...
11 across: See mistake, reduced cost next to nothing (9) B?S???R?? 22 across: duck stuffed withe trimmings of roast deer cooked for a stickler for naval etiquette? (13) 9 down: Paul helping to support...
"A once new building block of sea air (that let down Bingo in the Goodwood Cup) (5.6)
Last one, assuming 16 down is "horrific", though I'm not sure why.
Help please for a newbie!...
