Last ones 15d. Marine someone sides with against leader (3) S?? (suspect SEA but why?) 16d. A poet working in close-up ((5) D???E (suspect DANTE, DONNE or DUNNE) 17a. A copper and scandium circle (4)...
1a. Go like a camper, perhaps 1d. Arrow pointing to clearing 2d. Run from Notre Dame beginner observed 5d. Back and front to repair 6d. Animal fur, if trimmed 9a. Catch a girl with nothing on (5) 10d....
Struggling with this - a quote/passage from a book, diary or journal (or possibly TV/DVD although it's supposed to be 'literal'). The author may have a literary or walking background or connection to...
Possibly a literary theme, maybe something of a walking theme or related to a description by an outdoor writer, poet or celebrity. Q. Who lost what between Mortimer's Penning and Cutt's Copse in...
May or not be a Cumbria dialect words involved, pretty sure of adjoining letters but I've been wrong before. 9d. Kind-hearted (6) T???E 13a. One for Paul Griffiths, maybe? (5) B???H 6d. Calves (6)...
4d. Composer put on diet's content 5d. A storyteller raised the bar (4) 6d. Choose to turn pro (2 words) 17d. Close face extremely greasy (5) 22a. Too much empty river faces a swimmer (5) 24a. Threat...
2d. Right pocket? 8d. Another creeps on board all right 9a. Instrument beginning to tremble with initial pluck 11a. A little piglet circles a house 13d. A tree with a round top, say 14a. Discuss...
8d. Furious deities from Ireland, of course 10d. Catch it from different tanneries 15a. Material not worn by an unknown student (7 I think) 20a. Record a backward Frenchman has to cut (9 I think)...
13a. Back from jail, some testify in case (4) L?ST
Could be LIST or maybe LEST. Wondering if jail reference could give IST from stir. Otherwise how do they get to answer?...
5d. Occasional year-end overtime 8d. Impasse, say, broken by male cast 9d. Brief record ruined her meal 10a. Ferocious lion vet treated (7) U?????? (initially had VIOLENT as anagram of lion vet but it...
1d. News about a novelist at sea 3d. Fat suit one made the focus of polemic 15a. Increases reversed after final spike 16a. Men ruined work - it's sabotage 18d. Search for gold dropped in anger (poss...
Last one 6a. Cover story five in Rome back (4) ?E?L Probably VEIL.............. I get where the V (five) comes from, also get the relationship with Veil and cover........... but what's the rest of the...
1a. Victories to do with searches (9) ????U???? 7d. Perhaps another rogue is shocked (9) 9d. Foreign bread formerly closer to eggs in the fridge? (9) 11a. Trial court oddly wanting settlement (6) 13a....
4d. Game chased in a French city gets consumed - it's food... 6a. Animal sound from a cow half-seen (7) 10a. Sub located amidships breaks apart (7) ????P?? 13a. A vehicle demonstration after tea (7)...
Something very wrong here or I've messed up big style. a) Consensus say 5d is OPINE, but according to my grid 5d only has 4 letters. 5d. A duck at the top of a tree, say (4) ???H. If 9a is ALTO then...