Try to solve the Guardian cryptic today by Maskerade. 37 clues have additional 2 letters added to the existing answers which make a ‘themed’ word. I just can’t really get into it. Any help...
Bush's grimly humorous letter from long ago (10) BLACKTHORN???
Cricket captain, heartless automaton (4) 3rd letter = 'R' if above is correct. TIA :)...
A shoe merchant's last piece of luck (6) a???e?
I see I love an American statesman (6) o?i?a?
Speed deciding game beneath Scottish water (4,6) ???n?u?b?r (even number?)
Thanks...
Please help.
5d: Barman's wife is in bed (6). I've got ?a???r.
2d: Going from either end over diocese, travelling the shortest route (8). I've got ???d???c. Many thanks...
4d Discrimination, the charge against 9 6 16s? (7)
18d 9 16 16's work: regal ruin, as family's taken over (4,4)
9 6 16 is 'DEAD WHITE EUROPEAN MALE'...
I'm sitting outside Tesco Superstore, waiting to unload, and "Home Thoughts From Abroad" by Cliffird T Ward is playing on the radio. What a beautiful song, by a wonderful singer/songwriter. Not a...
Still struggling.
21d a Scottish valley without a mineral (6) ?a???a { galena ?}
23a starter of boiled egg on rare meat (6) ?????r
17d you'll see one shuffling to work in Vegas (8) ?r???I??...
21d ... "Fish - portion of it served with bread" (6)
This is the stubborn last one in; from the surrounding answers we are confident that the pattern is "_I_N_N"
Any help gratefully acknowledged...