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17a Macaulay gives pleasure, with disasterous results (9) R - IN - - - L -
16d He wrote against nature in France (8) - - - S - T - S
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Two explanations, please. 1a Register a line in female handbags. Answer: FALSETTO.
16a Trouble starts to frighten those seeking to prevent it? (6) Answer: FRACAS.
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19a Standing figure, 21 (6) - T - T - S 21a is AMERICAN. Is the answer STATUS or STATES? (can't see the word play for either) 26a Bit of fun, turning over a village (5) K - A - - Is this KRALA or...
Stuck on three. 4d Money from west of Africa one passed on to the north (4) C - D - 8d Finance minister departs: tsar having another five alongside his first? (5) D - W - N 16a Pope from Italy's more...
Last two. 1d Fitzgerald provided this opening for backers (4) S - T -
22d What Egan supplied to the adventures of Tom and Jerry (6) - I - I - H
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Can anyone explain 2d? Language displaying the thin end of the wedge (7) Reported earlier as HITTITE. I thought it ws HETHINE (hidden in clue) but apparantly not. Thanks.
Last two. 27a Hoarding in previous month, utter claim for subsistence (7) P - L - U - E 5d Had a feminine 10 with blessed woman separating father and daughter (8) S - S - E - E - 10a is SIBSHIP:...
22a Titanic survivors, but later mostly ruined. (8) C - L - S - A -
Looks so like COLOSSAL, but someone has indicated that it isn't right. If it s what is the word play, please?...
Last few. 28a Beginning of the end of parades of Fords (4, 2, 3) S - N - D - N - T 22a Titanic survivors, but later mostly ruined. (8) C - L - S - A - Looks like COLOSSAL, but can't see the word play....
14d and 26a seem to clash as reported earlier. 'Essayist coolly concealing names' looks very much like CONNOLLY and 'Mary McCarthy associated them with novel' looks like IDEAS since she wrote 'Ideas...
Last 3. 9a She was seen by Lee as a rival queen (6) R - - A - A Looks like ROXANA, but I can't see the connection. 18d "He makes his rounds every evening, while you and I see the ---- once a...
50a Criticism in article about unsound translation (13)
A - I - A - - - R - - - N
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Finished I think, but not sure o three answers. 21d Impose before anyone else, as comic Mason would say (5) F - I - T FOIST? 19a Wife somthering Jack in sugar leads to jocularity (7) - - G - E - Y...
A bit of a killer today. 23d Clubs given nothing extra, starting from lowest position in league (4) - L - C 9a Way Spaniards used frilly ace to clothe a child (6, 4) - - M - N - R - A - BININI ROAD,...