Daily Mail Crossword Tues

[suechu]

Morning all, help please with:

20a Rival queen hosts person of mixed race, not Tory leader (8)
e-u---o-

17a So-called Swiss bankers back number about writer (6) ???e?s

Tks in advance.

[sandyRoe]

17 Gnomes?

[sandyRoe]

Eurasian ?

[bibblebub]

20a emulator - e.r. outside of mula(t)to

17a gnomes - 'song' backwards outside of 'me' [the setter]

[dannyk13]

20a Emulator (Queen = ER mixed race not tory leader -Mulato)
17a Gnomes ( Song reversed anout me)

[suechu]

Tks Sandy! brill

[factor-fiction]

Is the clue BANKERS or BANKER'S?

[bibblebub]

(it's a reference to 'the gnomes of Zurich')

[suechu]

oops, no eurasian doesn't fit

[factor-fiction]

I see the Song (back numbers) and the Me (writer).
I don't see why GNOMES fits the "so called Swiss bankers" bit- am I missing the obvious? Thanks

[factor-fiction]

Thanks bibblebub- your explanation must have appeared while I was typing my question

[suechu]

Tks all! Factor, Swiss bankers are commonly called the Gnomes of Zurich.

[factor-fiction]

Thanks all- I didn't know that.
I was thinking too deeply anyway- I thought it meant the answer sounded like the name of a Swiss river

[shooty]

EMULATOR. (ER = QUEEN. MULATTOR IS MIXED RACE. MINUS T for tory leader

stuck on 17 across myself : (

[factor-fiction]

I've got a feeling, Shooty, that 17a could be GNOMES

[shooty]

HA HA. as you can guess, i'm new here : )

[bibblebub]

Why, 13 hours after the solutions were given, are you posting one of them and saying that you are still stuck on the other?

[shooty]

just found this page biblebub and i;m trying to find my way around. sorry if this has annoyed you. its a learning curve for me

[bibblebub]

no, shooty, it hasn't annoyed me (but I strongly suspect that you are not as new as you claim)

[shooty]

i promise you i am. this is the first time i have ever used a blog site and i ussually stick to the sun crossword at work. i have been trying and mostly completing the express crossword when i get home. and have sat down for nearly three hours tonight to challange myself against the mail with a great deal of help from the internet. just trying to improve my knowledge and spelling. should have called myself novice boy hey