16d) On the coast it's hard to remove salt in mere (8) -a-n---e
25a) "Get up, having drunk tea" put in old words (8) a----i-e
23a) Express coming, with no anonuncement (4) -e-t...
"Tell to seal mouth after Beethoven's ninth a line combining different tunes" -O-T-A-U-T-L
Also "Feeding kid too much material (with a mouth for snake)" -O-T-N...
Last one - help!
18 ACROSS
Cake found in middle of floor covered in dog hair? (7)
P_T_O_P (the specific 2 letters have been removed from solution (at least once) before entry into grid...
I think I may have solved this one, but am dubious about 16D, "Low marks for French writers" for which I have _E_I_L_S, and the only thing I can come up with is PENIBLES. The PEN ties in with writers...
Help appreciated.
19D. Declaration of faith in king with a big knife! (6)
The grid shows seven letters for 19D. So don't know which one is wrong.
S?A?AD?...
Good morning everyone - well after a bumpy start we're finally underway ..I'm not impressed when the gremlins come to play !! and it's another of Kate's 'mixed bags' today, I've a sneaky feeling...
Nearly there, I don't 'get' the wordplay for two answers, if someone would enlighten me I'd be grateful - 26 across: Dusty covering with ordinary look (5) DE?KO (is it decko or dekko?) 11 down:...
3d, A??, Something put in Christmas pudding is poisonous. 7d, 2words, 4.7. M?a? D?s?a??, Inmates trod carelessly in cooler. 8d, D?p?n?o, Tenor in party getting Chinese duck. 9a, 2words 3.3. ?e? ??l,...