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[Bernie]

More decoration is about the press either way (7) n?p?p?r.
Assuming these letters are correct.
Many thanks

[elliemay1]

repaper?

[dannyk13]

Repaper - Reads the same backwards.

[JJ109]

Repaper (palindrome)

[elliemay1]

What clue gave you the N?

[Bernie]

Thanks for that.
Forgot 1.
Flare fired from a pistol(4) ?s?again assuming my letters are correct

[fiction-factory]

you are showing 3 not 4

[dannyk13]

Very
http://www.argoflares.com/research/very-pistol/

[fiction-factory]

verylight doesn't fit

[fiction-factory]

Crossed post with danny's. Probably is very then as we both thought it

[Bernie]

I had Show ones hands for 1 across.
Repaper is correct so now I have changed it to show ones cards so repaper fits in

[dannyk13]

FF I posted Very- not Verylight

[Bernie]

I feel Very is right.
For 23a Thorny I had Spinous. I've now changed it to spinose which would give me ?e?y. VERY

[Bernie]

Many thanks for all your help

[dannyk13]

Are you sorted now Bernie?

[fiction-factory]

dannyk - you seem to have missed my post immediately afterwards

[Bernie]

I'm sorted now thanks so much to everyone.
No danny I got your post My internet can be so slow at times