Grrr. It's that time again. Sailed through the rest, and have come to the usual grinding halt with this one last clue which has me utterly stumped. 8down) Beauty's budding offspring (5) I have L?N?Y...
Have got some of the unclued bishoprics (the better known ones, of course), but my search skills are failing and grateful for a head word to steer me to where i might find the others on Google or in...
6d Saint Simon? (Could be a catch) (4) PA?L
26d Fabric mark? A firm's upset with this (5) ?RACK
28d Dip in the loch section, low but rising (4) SOO?...
Wow ! To be honest I loved the anagrams! But am I right that he (she?) got one wrong? The anagram is of "coordinates" but I think the answer might be "containerised". At least that fits my other...
12a Aristocratic address in heart of family plot and garden (6) MI?A?D If the A is wrong I must have got the unclued 2d wrong as well. Gtfl any help. Tks.
Nearly there: 9a Novelist, Gertrude is attending to this girl's style (8) ?T?E???N
and 4d Kirk's caretaker who's beheaded Richard's killer (5) E???N
Many tks....
4d Right-thinking folk (4-8) D???-P?N?A?T?
13a Rarer term for an inhabitant of the Carpathian Mountains region who speaks an East Slavic language (7) R?T?E??
Many tks all help....
Found this a very uneven and uninspired effort for a Times prize puzzle. Heavily-laboured clues like 5d and 10a mixed with others that should have been in Times 2, 1d, 20 and 15d for instance.
I am stuck on 10a. The clue is An underground version of dirty Melville peep book abbreviated, (4,4). If my Down answers are correct I have _O_L/_Y_E. Up to when I got the Y I had been assuming the...