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Inquisitor 1132

Have completed 2/3 of the grid and have most of the descriptive letters. I read the previous post suggesting Chesterton, but having gone through his quotes, cannot find one that may fit. Am I barking...

Boo Boo

Painting a Plaster Wall

I've just stripped all the old wallpaper in the bedroom back to the bare plaster. The wallpaper had been up for years & the plaster is in good condition. All prep work (i.e. filling cracks etc.) has...

suesi1

Cat c right off

I have been in accident, this chap ran into me. The insurance comp are righting my car off as a cat c. Can i sell the car on as a cat c and how do you sort the paper work out ?eg. Do i contact DVLA or...

midazolam

Listener 4042: How to Put On a Little Weight by Charybdis

A while since Charybdis' last Listener (The difficult "Wot no Lines?" in 2007) The grid fill here is much easier, and the quotation was got only after 12 entries. We are left with an ambiguity that...

midazolam

Listener 4027: Command Performance by Centigram

Centrigram gives us this weeks listener with a very nice denouement (better than squaring the circle last year) Although the across anagrams makes it tougher than the clues actually are, there is a...

McMouse

Barrack Obama is visiting a Glasgow hospital

He enters a ward full of patients with no obvious sign of injury or illness, He greets one. The patient replies: Fair fa your honest sonsie face, Great chieftain o the puddin race, Aboon them a ye...

kaminsk2p

Mephisto 2534

23a Hollow charges of a certain sod reduced (5) I have ?ELVE. I can see DELVE being to excavate or to hollow. I can see HELVE as a (possibly) hollow handle for a tool. I can see VELVE(T) for a certain...

amalgam

Guardian 24653

22d A dark blue in itself (5) P?R?E. This is my last clue, and I must be dim, but I've looked at all the possibilities on my word programme, Is it a proper noun? Many thanks for any help.

starwalker

Listener Crossword 4025 The Brewer's Ingredients by Gnomon

This is Gnomon's second appearance, the first being back in 2004. I presume that many are already hard at work on it.

mungomouse

Well-known sayings

Please can any one help to fill in the missing letters to give well-known phrases or sayings? One dash for every missing letter. L--- o- h--- a-- g---- C------ b----- a- h--- M-- a- a c--- T-- g----...

primula

Crossword - Herald

Can someone give me this answer? Thanks in advance to all who answer. 1) Metamorphic rock containing garnet and pyroxene (8) E?L?G?T? Thanks primula

Clamzy

LISTENER CROSSWORD 4022 At arms length by Hotspur

Maybe all our prominent members are resting after last week's exertions, so I'll kick off this week's thread. Haven't had more than a glance at it yet and am not too familiar with this setter.