I've lost my patience with this. 5dn Mike and Robert were working on line in beer plant (12). Answer: MICROBREWERY - but is MIC an acceptable synonym for MIKE? 8dn Last couple avoid vespers in any...
24dn Funny business with farmhouse victims (5) COMIC - business = CO, but how does 'farmhouse victims' give MIC? 22dn Polish, perhaps, or not, by the sound of it (6) _E_I_H 21dn Spoke out in broadcast...
Did tinker empty tankard over physicist? (8) Prestige of century-long growth without war (6) = CACHET - but why? Regularly ignored as grey - it's mass problem for the old (6) = AGEING - but why?...
Small state captured by force was first to be threatened (10) IMPERILLED? If so why? Obsequious perfomance of duty gets pound for Charlie (7) SERVILE? If so why? Religious art needs to change still,...
I think I've finished this, but should be grateful for some explanations / clarifications.. 4 For a start, swimming pool's not so very clean. SPOTLESS - I get the SP, but where does the OTLESS come...
This was very straightforward until I reached the bottom right corner..... Corrected crossword setter turned over (7) Emended? if so, why? Poet put out about weekend (5) Wilde? if so, why? First of...
I've completed this (with much groaning), but cannnot parse three of the solutions. Any explanations would be most welcome. 5ac. Second book bt Mafia leader's not old hat (3,3) MOB CAP 16dn. Maybe...
Workers on the minimum wage who are aged 25+ will see their pay rate rise from £6.70 to £7.20 on 1 April with the introduction of the new National Living Wage. By law, average pay over the previous...
As usual, one of Mudd's crossword's has made me grumpy. Does anyone know how to contact the FT crossword editor to ask her/him to stop publishing Mudd & GAFF crosswords on a Saturday and give us more...