Mail Giant Crossword - Some We Don't Understand (4)...

[cracker22]

83a Flatten and wind up (4) R?L?. Quick clue = Wind up. ROLL we think, but why?

Not certain about the L though. It is
84d Told a story in song (4) Quick clue = Fibbed. L?E? (assuming ROLL is correct). Where does the song come into it?

[scorpiojo]

Lied is a German word meaning 'song'

[Captain2]

84 Lied (to tell a (false) story and Lied is another word for a song - from the German)

[roslyn251254]

cracker - please put all your questions in one post or the page fills up too quickly

[Captain2]

If you flastten, say pastry, you roll it out

[cracker22]

Thanks all. What about the "wind up"? It doesn't really seem to mean roll.

Roslyn - I've done that before but I know some people like to try to be first to answer, and if there are too many clues together I've found that things get lost - like "wind up". But if that's the site's protocol (is it?), I'm happy to group things together

[boxtops]

If you wind something up, you roll it up (e.g. ribbon)

[emmie]

i am still undecided about this but have put roll