Skeleton Crossword

[231047]

Help please. 4 down: Short answer from westerner's wrong; I have t-r--; 12 across: This magazine or catalogue; I have s-r-; 13 across: Heroic leaders are past caring; I have ---r-; 13 down: It's in Hemel Hempstead, I admitted; is that tea; 14 down: Short skirt? One disapproves; 18 across: Somebody turning round (their first turn); I have -i-o-.

[fiction-factory]

terse?

[fiction-factory]

sort?

[fiction-factory]

pivot?

[fiction-factory]

Can't parse that , so may be wrong

[mallyh]

12 sort
13 heart
13d hip
14 tut(u)

[Neveracrossword]

14 Tut, disapprove - Tutu would be the skirt.

PS Your queries are a bit hard to read as they're all running together..

[fiction-factory]

VIP (a somebody) reversed +O( round) and T first letter of Turn

[fiction-factory]

Yes, these would be easier to read if you could start each on a new line

[dannyk13]

Terse - a westerner minus answer
Heart- He(roic) + art ( old are)
Hip
Tut(u)
Pivot- Vip(somebody) reversed + t(heir) & o(round) reversed

[mallyh]

12a s(magazine ) or sort = catalogue?

[dannyk13]

Mally- yes.

[Mamyalynne]

Where does the 'T' come from in 'Sort' ?

[fiction-factory]

maybe clue should have said THIS catalogue then S OR T would have been hidden in the clue

[Mamyalynne]

I ask as I saw it parsed elsewhere yesterday as..

So + RT(magazine)

Which I was also unsure of.

[mallyh]

I thought s (mag) or t(his)

[dannyk13]

I wasn't sure of the parse, but with the intersecting letters that was the only word that made any sense with the clue.

[Mamyalynne]

Agree with the answer of course.

[dannyk13]

I would like to know how the setter parsed it.

[mallyh]

wonder if it should read this magazine or this catalogue

[Mamyalynne]

It's certainly more satisfying, yes.