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Spectator 2618 - Chain Gang By Cheesecracker

Good evening, Cheesecracker’s offering was not overly tender. In fact, it was gripping to the end with a fascinating theme. A welcome respite from this week’s EV for me! Just two clues are left to be...

tedsgran

Tls 1490

26a Mayo novelist I introduced to Arundhati? (6) R?O?E?

SunCoffeeTime

Tls 1490

Hoping for some help on these last few in this week's TLS 1490 puzzle, thank you. 6 down Arcadian king a girl left upset (5) A?E?S 8 down Architect, Minoru, turning up a month before Munro? (8)...

FleshpotsOfDevon

Tls 1490

This week’s TLS is going OK but this one is eluding me - Yorick's skull covers paper with soil, not oil (5,4) I have F?O?? from the fist word, but that’s it. TIA...

welshtanner

You Crossword.

Have just received a cheque for £250.00. Thanks to everyone who count the As as I always check to see if I have got it right. I enter by post so didn't think that I had much chance....

wexfordwhite

Just Can't Figure This Out!

3d) Olympuc Sport (9): A?H?E?E??

Ray Nolan

Lovatt's Giant Cryptic

One who speaks in public on behalf of the government (7) - - B - T - R Can only be DEBATER or ARBITER. Cannot see "speak in public" connection with ARBITER. Cannot see "on behalf of government"...

dafyddapgwilym

Tls 1488

17d) I try to ruin match with shocking statement about Gunners' energy (8) I have ?o?a?h?o and just can't get it......

FleshpotsOfDevon

Azed 2669

Can I check if I’ve got these two correct to finish - Young salmon, light brown, feature of Mull seafood restaurant? - PARTAN Bomber attack sounded clearly under power - PRANG Thanks!...

Boethius

Spectator 2617 19A

Nearly complete, but I don’t really understand last part of the rubric ‘one solution finally and another first and last’, or why 19A should start with ‘M’ if we’re ‘Enzed’. Grateful for some light!...

FleshpotsOfDevon

Tls 1489

Early doors with the TLS this week again. Just one left ( I found it very approachable overall this week) - To whom Gilbert's lord's half-heartedly introduced initially (4) (It’s always the little...

FleshpotsOfDevon

Spectator 2616

I have two regular clues left - Completely cancel reorganisation of small university’s land (8) D?S????? Select an old character, say, as Lavatch’s alter ego (8) P?I??ON? (This one seems a bit meta)...

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