Delighted to have completed this quite quickly - just don't understand how in 9ac "Clue to father's2 makes "Big girl's", though. Can anyone enlighten me, please?...
8d - what prisoners require starting sentence (7,6) - ???I?A? ?????? - capital letter? why 10ac- there can be one of three (7) - ??A?R?M - anagram? diagram? why? 22ac- funny business that may leave...
Please could somebody explain why...
18ac is LISP - 'making you sound "stupid" not "unwell"!'
22ac is TRICKERY - 'Funny business that may leave one feeling abused not amused.
Thanks....
30a) A lens, say, to capture you, old girl (8) -Y-G-A-S Must be "-glass" 19a) Plots for dogs (7) P---L-S "poodles"?! 12a) Henry Holmes into being stripped of registration (9) E---L-E-T "enrolment" 1d)...
Trouble getting started this morning. Help appreciated. 1ac - grey skirt in the drawer (8,6) - C?A???A? ?E???? 1d- dogs and poultry catch up, but not in the main text (6,8) - I have cocker spaniels ,...
2d) Inhaling dope, libertine cuddled and kissed (9) C----O-L-D Must be "canoodled", but why? 9a) Golden infant originally seen in sweetly fragrant youth (8) M-(N)-R-T- 13a) Gripping item initially,...
Fed up with this crossword now. Please can somebody put end to my misery with it? 13ac Sneer about crumbling coastal resort (10) 29ac Fail to score with young lady (4) 17dn Universal god is deceived...
Can't get the word play on these 3 :- "Web article from Nancy about storage space." L?T?I?E Lattice ? "Left Cambridge University after one term." L?M?T Looks like LIMIT but why? "Marks sofa in two...
Help with 9d: One novelist enters pass, keeping his head in danger (3-4) I have I?E-?O?L. The answer is the last of 30 US State nicknames. I assume it is something like "Ice-Bowl" for Alaska but can't...
"The solutions to the thirty clues that lack thematic definition form three fifths of a set verifiable in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" Please could somebody explain what the **** this...
