Independent Prize Crossword 1287 Sunday November 2Nd 2014

[gillie3431]

Help please. Grain beside line in middle of wharf....9 letters....??IT?A??? and
Leather cap , missing one, behind cases....8 letters....?A??ETT?

[doctordolittle]

I think your letters for 19 are wrong, I have _TA_O_I_ _. 4 Down is hard hat; 20 down aghast; 17 down ioduret;, 7 down eccleesiast. I have _ A _ RET _ _ for 27.

Her's the pones I am stuck on:
Have you got 10 down?
Is 5 across galeas, and if so why?
18 down _ _ B _ TA
22 across _LLO_G_

[Neveracrossword]

These are not the Independent Prize crossword - it's Beelzebub.

5 A is not 'galeas' - it's Turkish boats ( a heraldic word for 'red' with a 't' for tons.)

[Neveracrossword]

Leather cap .. Cabretta.

[doctordolittle]

Thanks for cabretta = a light soft leather. cases = ca? + b(i)retta is a cap
Gulets = gules + t

My big gap is 10 down: judge back and straight into remarks (11) A_O_ _ _ _ _TE_

[Neveracrossword]

10 D. Agonothetes - I won't attempt to parse it, but it's correct (means 'a judge').

[gillie3431]

THANK YOU ONE AND ALL. Ten down is allonge.

[doctordolittle]

I see you are right but it is frustrating not to be able to see why!

I am now down to 4.
Grain beside line in middle of wharf (9) _TA_O_ITH
Zero support over area for tariff (6) _ _ B _ TA
Australian kid free from anxiety (6, 2 words) _TE_SE
Quite close to goddess, forming attachment (7) _LLO_G_

[doctordolittle]

Allonge fits but how? I see it is an attachement

[Neveracrossword]

Zero support... Zabeta, tariff. It's Z, unknown+abet/support+a/area.

[Neveracrossword]

Australian... At Ease - free from anxiety. It's just A for Australian and Tease for kid.

[doctordolittle]

Great. could australian.... be otense (anagram of os teen)?

[doctordolittle]

At ease - doh!!!

[Neveracrossword]

Grain... Statolith, a grain. The 'wharf' is staith, but I don't know how the rest works.

[doctordolittle]

Statolith = any of various starch grains or other solid bodies in the plant cytoplasm that are held to be responsible by changes in their position for changes in orientation of a part or organ

A staith is a landing place. Beside = to. Line = l.

Still not happy with allonge or agonothetes.......

[Neveracrossword]

Allonge could be...
All = quite
Ge = Goddess
and if 'on' can mean 'close to',then it all works. That's all I can come up with!

[Neveracrossword]

Agonothetes...
Ago = back
Notes = remarks
Het = straight/heterosexual.

Ago Not Het Es.