October issue: All are Scottish words or terms and also could also be regional Scottish terms or variations.
Due to difficulty and variations of spelling, some of my adjoining letters might be in error.
1d. Look after oneself (4,3,6) H???/S??/?????L
6d. Disapproving look (4,6) ???N/????I?
9a. A cat (5) C?E??
13d. Not one thing or the other (7,6,3,5) T???H??/?E??I?/N??/????E
19a. Shawl pin (12) GR???I??????
26d. In the sulks (10) G??N?O?R?S
27d. Soup bowl (4,5) ????/?H?T?
54d. An opening (3) ?E?
Thanks for all your input.
54d. I too thought that EEN was a word for eyes.
26d. JimF...... can't be GREETINFACED as it's too many letters and because of the letters/answers I already have - and more since I posted - it now looks like this....
G?UN?O?R?S.
27d. Neveracrossword.... Can't be DEEP PLATE (although still could start with DEEP. Letter I have now are.........
????/?H?T? - and I have confidence in answers providing those letters.
I don't think I've heard that, not that that matters, of course! The word I would use for one would be "yin", as in The Big Yin (Billy Connolly, Glasgow), The Wee Yin (Edinburgh) etc.
Sorry Hazlinny
It must be something similar to the term meaning Neither here nor there or Neither hither nor thither......... but it can't be either of those.
Letter count is now:
N???H?? / ?E??I? / N?? / ????E (although last letter could be E or Y depending on how they've spelt SPAEWIFE or SPEYWIFE).
So I suspect it might NEITHER ?E??I? NOR ????E (or Y).