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[yellow11]

help please
15a silk brocade from family of old Madam?7 ??W??E?
18a sons and men repeated a line about female siblings 7 L??????
21a fungus survived around sheets'edges,sufficient to fight 6,5-3
????D?/?T???-???
23a tree down under attack by unshorn ram?( vague target of ridicule)10
I??L??????
thanks

[mallyh]

the only broca i can find with a w is bawdkin

[ladyalex]

Which fits the clue perfectly...

[mallyh]

oh yes lol.......bawd =madam .....kin = family

[TOMMO33]

s Or Or a l

[ladyalex]

Well done, mallyh!

Struggling with the others

[TOMMO33]

Should be s OR OR a l, not that it makes any difference.

[TOMMO33]

As you've got a letter wrong in both of those, are you sure about the other one?

[scorpiojo]

I'm trying to fit teg into 23a..without much success

[ladyalex]

I've been trying to fit HOG in to 23a...no luck

[Mamyalynne]

All I'm getting for 21 is...

Toledo Strip-War


any use?

[ladyalex]

clutchng at straws here...23a Eucalyptus ??

[scorpiojo]

White mahogany is a common eucalyptus tree...

[bibblebub]

yellowwood ??

is an Australian tree and contains the letters of wool/woolly...

[ladyalex]

Come on, Yellow 11 Give us some more placed letters if you have them...or the clues which gave the letters you have wrong in your original post.

[yellow11]

12d evil in question of motive which curtailed scottish blandishment 9-which I thought was wheedling but now =W?I???Y??
and 18d spill the beans on rented underclothing 7 which i had let slip-tho should be two words-however fits bibblebub's suggestion-but makes sororal start with l!

[mallyh]

spill the beans...... let slip

[scorpiojo]

Whillywha

[yellow11]

thanks-got tree now woollybutt-so D in 21a is now l

[ladyalex]

Well done, scorpiojo

[scorpiojo]

Thanks Ladyalex :)

Middle Stone Age fits...?