last two
1 ac
His showing up seen as exoneration in a sermon in crude melodrama
(6,6)
B?A???/P?S?E?
3dn
Dragoon guards colonel as Cambridge wit (9)
??L?E?L??...
I can't believe I'm the the first to post this week, so will someone tell me where I can find the real thread. Anyway, very enjoyable, and a subject that I have always enjoyed. Thanks Rasputin.
This edition's puzzle is at http://www.alumni.cam...am65/CAM_65_LORES.pdf (on page 48). A cunning offering by Ifor (who also had a good puzzle in the Listener series in May 2011 and sets elsewhere...
stuck on last 2
12 ac:
Porters wrote it out
C??ING - COMING/CRYING ?? Can't find any reference to this
26 Ac:
Fisher portrayed them from A to Z
S?E??S
SCENES? ditto...
26 ac
Mary Mccarthy associated them with novel (5)
I?L?s
It should surely be IDEAS but the middle letter must be L to fit the essyaist - so is it ISLES?...
37 ac
A trait passed down the generations - clamouring for attention? (4)
Looks like it should be GENE - but why? How does the second part of the clue work?...
Normally pretty straightforward but got me stumped this morning. Answer to 1a will help. Theatre, with openings re-allocated, spoils engagements (10)
????l???t?...
25 ac
last one...
Ultimate yen to capture revolutionary through lack of experience (7)
N?I?E?Y
it has to be NAIVELY or NAIVETY but I can't see which from the wordplay...