Is anyone else having trouble submitting this crossword? I am clicking submit and not getting the usual message which says that the entry has been submitted successfully. Many thanks.
Guardian Genius 247 8 across (normal clue): Somewhat macho? That characterises powerful car (8, 2 words). This is the only one I can't solve. Is it the name of a car I've never heard of, maybe? I... ...
I've got a long way with this crossword, but really struggling to fit the answers into the grid. I think some help with the six-letter answers might help: 7 Become excited, with sparkling wine... ...
Wordplay in each Across clue contians a superfluous letter. I think I have finished this crossword, but cannot parse the following. Any help appreciated. 25A Nasty op trauma that's admitted to... ...
Can anyone help me with parsing the following? I have the solutions (I think), but I have been puzzling over the parsing for days! 7 Calculate that this shortly might be represented by V & A? (7,2). I...
Preamble: Wordplay in 15 clues ignores one or a string of contiguous letters. In the filled grid these ignored letters produce eight words with a common theme. I have the theme for this crossword, but...
Last one - 1D Chemical element found in borders of Cleveland? (7). I think the answer is CADMIUM but I can't parse. Can anyone help please? Many thanks in advance.
Preamble: All definitions are in the wordplay. Can anyone parse this answer for me please? The clue is 5A "Horse and trap the Guardian essentially stabled." I'm pretty sure the answer is "COBWEB", but...
Preamble: All other clues consist of two cryptic clues, side by side. The two solutions they generate are to be entered side by side in the grid but cyclically, starting anywhere in the designated...
12A - "Shrink and cut growth having lost hundreds" - I think that the answer is "analyst" (= shrink), but cannot for the life of me work out the cryptic bit. Can anyone help please?...
Sorry, one more question - I have OUTWARDLY for the clue "This makes lad wry, superficially." I can see that WARDLY is an anagram of "lad wry", but where does the OUT come from? "THIS" doesn't mean...
I have finished this crossword except for one by which I am completely flummoxed! It's a normal cryptic clue as follows: American president's men associated with dry Watergate fiasco (6) - I have...
(See other threads for special instructions.) I think that I've finished this crossword, but have a few things I cannot work out: I cannot parse 2D - Loos maybe are something special in North America....
I think that I have all the answers but I cannot parse the following: 20A I have CREDOS - how does the "taken to heart by the old" parse for the letters C, E and O? 4D I have ENSNARES - how does the...
Stuck on the last clue 17D Climbing mountain in the morning, traversing hot African countries (7). I have the letters A, E, H and R, but have been puzzling over this for days and can't get anywhere!...
Pre-amble: "All clues and solutions are normal. However, before entry in the grid the down solutions must be treated in a way indicated by elements of the across entries." I think that I must be being...
Fourteen solutions need to be partially amended before entry into the grid in a consistent manner by undergoing either a hundredfold increase or a hundredfold decrease. Resulting grid entries are not...
Special instructions In 15 clues the wordplay (or a second definition) leads to a solution after someone has been 8, the definition for which has gone missing but turns up as a solution elsewhere....