36 Saturday December 10Th 2022

[Fitzys]

11a: Found on every café table. 4/6 letters. ?a?t and ?e???r
5d: A big muddle. 5/2 letters. s?a?? And ?p.
These 2 clues are intertwined….one needs the other. Thank you.

[Captain2]

11 Salt and pepper

[Hazlinny]

salt and pepper

[Captain2]

snarl up

[cashier]

5 Shake up?

[Fitzys]

Thank you both for salt and pepper. Neither shake up nor snarl up will fit with the p of pepper. Any further suggestions??

[cashier]

Where does the p fit?

[scorpiojo]

Where is the p?

[bobbinwales]

salt&pepper must be right so what does that give you now for 5d??

[cashier]

Shape up?
Spark up?

[Fitzys]

5d: It now reads s?a?p followed by the second word which is up.
The a is from undersea where the clue for that was “ below the waves “.
Thanks to all again.

[bobbinwales]

scamp up sounds familiar

[Fitzys]

Thanks bobbinwales. I’ll have to run with scamp up as nothing else fits.

[Patsy33]

Swamp up?

[Fitzys]

Maybe, Patsy33. Don’t know whether to run with scamp up or swamp up !!

[bobbinwales]

none a them sounds convincing....are you sure of the S but even if its wrong then I cant think of an answer

[Captain2]

Aw, just realised 11a is 4/6 so it's SALT CELLAR

Then my snarl up will fit

[bobbinwales]

! well spotted! we were all mislead

[Neveracrossword]

I felt I mislead myself - the OP did say 4/6. I think the 'and' between the words, with the given letters, should have been spotted (by me!)

[Captain2]

Errr, the same from a red faced me too. :))))

[Neveracrossword]

Sorry, Captain2, I meant to thank you - and applaud you - for resolving it. (I have resisted the use of the word 'eventually'...)