1ac About to stop for Derby, perhaps showing petulance (9) I have P???????? Also 25 ac Of course, look on hill from the east (5) I have ?OTEL TEL is the hill, and LO? is look but I can't find LOTEL in...
13ac Key old male who scores high? Rest once over (4) I have A?T? (A long clue for a four letter word, I feel) 6ac Merry since ordinary chap boxes (6) I have ??C??? Is it an anag of sinceo? 20ac Tease...
16dn Salt excess taken on top of a tea infusion (9) I have ??????AT? 6dn Primate drunk in gin palace last of all caught out (9) I have N???????? 5dn Must keep saving, clearly, mostly in old money (7)...
25dn Henry rejected ridiculous kitchen utensil (5) I have ?I?ER
29ac Old silver coin in poor state about to be preserved (6) I have ??E?TT
all help appreciated...
Last one.
17ac Makarios' letters, in retrospect, please lowly workers (4) I have ENA? s only 26 possibilities, but none seem blindingly obvious!
Shine light please....
Plodding onward....... but need help 33ac This'll stop gas otherwise rapid exercises must be admitted(7) I have DI?T??? which I thought is an anagram of RAPID and PE or PT? 1ac Go and get old remains...
Last couple. 9dn "Clean up in, say, union at end of strike" (6) I have EM???E fourth letter may be N 14dn "One's a workaholic and so crazy" (10) I have ???OMANIAC second letter...
Would like confirmation or otherwise of last three. 6dn In Shetland, frighten young gull out of yard (5) SCAUD? 7dn Strengthen philosopher's method, originally, to make a connection (6) MUNIFY? 19ac...
Could I make a polite (and partly selfish!) request to those posing questions, and I hope I'm not being too picky. There was an instance this week when 16 questions were put into one mega ask. I fully...
19ac Formerly those meeting sticky ends - those of Emperor Trajan, Nero, etc? (9) I have R?N?O?T?E
7dn Island that's up holding another one (6) I have ?A?I?I Is it EALIAI ?
All help appreciated...
Left hand side is proving difficult 1dn Navy put out, meaning's ominous (7) I have S?M???? 20ac Depression having abruptly desertes dope? (10, two words, split not given) I have ?????UR??? 13 dn Bad...
Last three 12ac Pope's work's no good, otherwise I can enter (7) I have D?N?I?? DINGIER? 4dn River leaves battling brother (5) I have L???M It's a flower (plant not river!) 49ac ..and she couldn't be...
What a difference to last week! Just need confirmation on two. 31 ac Fruit pie finally served by baker - leave the crust? (4) Is it OGEE 26 dn Duck that's seen over the border river? That's no duck!...
Final few - what a struggle! 22dn a crowning quality you and I give expert theologian (7) I have P??I??S 16dn Pass wind in Giotto's and Massacio's company? (8) I have ?OT?E?AS Something to do with...
11 ac Crowds with crosses in which 9 nearly died (10) I don't have 9ac to help. Is it MULTITUDES 3dn Mask for robber unfinished in similar holiday spot (10) I have R?????A?O? Is it RESPIRATOR? The I...
OK, I give up! Last three 16ac Money backed in southeastern islands principally (6) I have SE???I Is it SEMISI? 19dn Swallow cry tails off and a kestrel appears (7) I have S???YEL I guess YEL is YELL...
Oh dear, it's wading through treacle this week.
18ac Exhausts free meals cooked around Zambia (10) I have ???F?E??E? Is it MALFREEZES? Must be an anagram!
Thanks etc...