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Private Eye Crossword 700
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20a. our bolshie Dave joins with Bill (private eye) whom many fellow rebels claimed to be. (9). S?A?T?C?S. could be sparticus, but why?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Dave Spart is a parody of a stereotypical left-wing agitator who featured in editions of the 1970s and from time to time since (for example, after the 2011 England riots and following the split in Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet over the bombing of Syria and military intervention against ISIL). Occasionally, his sister, Deirdre Spart, has offered her views. Private Eye often refers to real-life hard-left activists as "Spartists", itself a parody of the left-wing Spartacist League. Ken Livingstone is sometimes lampooned as Ken Leninspart.