With seemingly no-one yet posting I thought I would have some fun as I have not started a thread before. Some clues a lot trickier than recent weeks given the varying clue options etc., I'm only about...
11a) Periodic arms check favoured, welcomed by washington, bah! (9) I have the answer but cannot settle on the forth letter as being 'E' or 'I' ? I get the defintion and word play for the rest of the...
Whilst on the speccie; More by luck than judgement I got this right and jumped the right way with the 'troublesome' ones (1A and 15A) however I am being really really slow here and very much Mr Thicky...
Thank you to the kind folks who provided the PDF' .. does anyone know if it is acceptable to send it in (i.e. PDF printed out and filled in of course) for the chance of being picked out the bag ? or...
18a) Subject That Old Black Magic's vocal parts (transposed) depict? (4) ?B?A struggling with this last one - I reckon OBIA as a form of black magic for the definition but can't quite get / resolve...
Spenser's footing nothing in deal (6): T?O?D? I have TROADE as it fits the 'nothing in deal' wordplay and I can find a literary reference for Edmund Spenser's' the faiere queen ; 'where foot of living...
14a) switching halves, New Zealander means to collaborate on a website (4). The answer is clearly KIWI or WIKI and I think it's the former but i'm only learning this stuff and not sure of the correct...
20a) Full of smoke and mirros, at first masking run of violence (4). F?M? I have convinced my self that it must be FUME (smoke, plus first bit of Full and maybe mirrors = me and you fume before you...
8d mass with radiation sheilding erected in loose coat. I cocked up here and put 'Simar' instead of 'Symar' both mean Cymar = loose coat but even now I don't get the word play in the clue - please...
14a) bitter-ender, as in submarine, extinguished lives when caught by Germanic invaders? (15) - answer is jusquauboutiste (possibly me at the end instead of te) . I prefer te as I see 'jutes' as the...
15d) ignoring diameter, hands' and feet's undersides by turns show lack of depth (9) S-O---E-- (last letter possibly s) - could be Shortness ? explanation appreciated TVM
15d) ignoring diameter, hands' and feet's undersides by turns show lack of depth (9) S-O---E-- (last letter possibly s) - could be Shortness ? 7d) Worm accompanied by mothers embraced by child (4,5)...
27d) strokes hares = Dashes or Dasher ? I can see that dashes are strokes and someone who hares around dashes but a dasher makes strokes and also hares around. plus the last 5 letters 'asher' is an...
12A two rings initially each bird required (6) H-O-O- I think it is Hoopoe as in hoop-o-e ; two rings being a 'hoop' and an 'o' followed by an inital 'e' but could it be Hoopoo ? for some other reason...
I would like to get a decent dictionary - Is there one dictionary that folk would recommned as being the best. In particluar is there an accepted 'bible' that cyrptic crosswoird setters / solvers use...
30a) Almost conclude time's reached for takeoff (6) D---C- I think it is DEDUCT but might be DEDUCE . Cant work out whch way round the logic goes on clue - please explain. 18d) Put paid to it, with...
