Rte Issue No 5

[poorclare]

11a Might the bible tell his truth and lie about him (6) d???e?
28a Where many workers get cheesed off on being laid off (10) ?r???e?i?s

06d Only one way to go when faced with ruin (8) ?o???a?l
19d Such is the state that Texas is in... (4,4) l?n? s???

15a ^^^^ scenery chewers (4) ??p?

Thanking you

[elliemay1]

19 lone star?

[Psybbo]

19 Lone Star

[elliemay1]

6 downward?

[Tilly2]

19d Lone Star

[fiction-factory]

Daniel

[Tilly2]

28a seen answered as 'creameries'.

[fiction-factory]

downfall?

[elliemay1]

Daniel

[fiction-factory]

Do we need to know what the ^^^^ symbols point to?

[1581960]

28a creameries

[fiction-factory]

15a Seen as Alps

[poorclare]

Thank you my friends, don't understand the ^^^^ but my niece has come up with Alps, don't know her logic, but she thinks its funny.

[poorclare]

I bet that is where my niece Denise got the answer ~ hence the giggling

thank you all, am going to Dublin tomorrow and I want to post the xword
there (fingers crossed)

[fiction-factory]

cold it be HAMS as suggested here?
http://www.crosswordsolver.org/clues/s/scenery-chewers.264611
Doesn't explain the ^^^^ though whereas I can just see how ^^^^ could mean a mountain range

[Calibax]

I think it is alps - ^^^^ is a diagrammatic description.
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alp_%28folklore%29
//They also enjoy tangling hair into "elfknots" or chewing and twisting horse's tails.//

[poorclare]

Yes Fiction-factory, I looked at that sigh, but I had the P from the clue
16d Might such writing skill exclude Austen, Bronte, Christie et al (10)
~ I have penMANship (penmanship)

[poorclare]

I like it Calibax, thank you