18a Bank certainly can spare a pound (4) R?L? This would seem to be RELY. Is the wordplay just that there is an ‘L’ in the answer? Is there some sort of link to (SU) RELY meaning certainly, in...
7d Come Together has letters regularly spaced in "joo joo eyeball" line (4) This has really stumped me. Also 17a Ayurvedic energy is the necessary answer (5) D?S?A and 1d Unknown with talent's coming...
Last one. 7d Pink-and-white heroine of Victorian fairy story (7) R?S?L?A I'm beginning to think that this is RUSALKA, but I don't see the pink-and-white connection to the opera. Any ideas? Thanks....
Last two. 7d Pink-and-white heroine of Victorian fairy story (7) R?S?L?A Looks like Rosella or Rosalia 25a Repentant Roman deserter who suffered 17 (9) E?O?A?B?S 17 is 'death on the nile' Can't see...
Last one at last. 9a Events of this Man of Steel's career satirised by Gaddis in a frolic of his own. (5) S?R?A Gaddis wrote 'A frolic of his own' in which a sculptor called Szyrk made a steel...
Was going great guns, but completely stuck on the north west corner.
4a Boy mounted dragon (5) L????
11a Putney clipper from Morton (6) B?????
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22d Where we should vide it if it went before (5) S?P?A
18a One must get on his bike to improve on this astrophysicist's number (9) ??D???T?N
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Two left. 23a Butler's bigamous kitchen maid (5) E?L?N ELLEN? but I don't see the connection.
28a Comfort offered as the strange start to the title (5) H?S?E
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Last two. 10a His last books' eponymous characters were not identified with Dallas (5) O?A?A Can only think of OMAHA
20d Attic source of some early mysteries (7) E?E?S?S
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Difficult this month. I think I've got something wrong and it is paralysing me. 9a With criminal mind, potentially one best to cut slack after act (4, 5) ??L? C???? Also can someone explain the...
Stuck on a few. 28a Melody from Beattie character reprised by Chatterton? (9, 4) M???T?E?S ???G 17a Mary's sister holds a highly competitive race in India (7) M?R?T?A 25d Strangely born a Waugh, but...
23a Monk of Worcester, chronicler with deceptive name (8) F?O???C? Looks like FLORENCE, but that makes 16d Statesman-poet giving short weight, say (9) L?T?E?T?N making LITTELTON, but I can find no...