Fao - The Km Players

[seekeerz]

Here are today's shaded clues for you -


18a Word linking with 'stone' for the diamond in a novel by Wilkie Collins [4]


41a With a symbol derived from its Latin name ferrum. a metal obtained from hermatite and magnetite [4]

53a Novelist who wrote The Tin Drum [5]


8d The underground den of a fox [5]

[Mamyalynne]

Moon

Iron

Grass

Earth

[Buenchico]

Moon
Iron
Grass
Earth

[seekeerz]

morning mamya ....I have the distinct feeling you were sitting on my shoulder while I typed !!! Gee you were quick :))

[Buenchico]

I must speed up!

[Mamyalynne]

Pure luck honest.

[seekeerz]

morning Chris ...not quite fast enough today :))

[twix123]

I didn't even have a chance to start typing !

[Buenchico]

G'day, Seekerz.

Did you manage to complete my two recent crosswords? (I know the first one has caused a few problems in Italy; I wondered if the same applied down there in Oz?)

[Buenchico]

^^^ Sorry for getting your username wrong (yet again!)

[seekeerz]

Well almost, but not quite !! Pretty much finished the second but definitely a few probs with the first ...have put them both on one side for now, but will get back there.

I hate to ask ...but why Italy ??

[Buenchico]

Oddly, I thought that the second one was far harder than the first!

I've got a friend in Italy who likes doing crosswords. He gets annoyed if he can't do mine!

He's got a flat here in the UK, near to me, so I see him quite often. He joins in our Sunday evening crossword sessions in the pub when he's here and, even though English is his second language, he puts the rest of us to shame when it comes to getting the really obscure answers. He's not exactly thick though ;-)
http://www.phys.virginia.edu/People/personal.asp?UID=sc2k

[seekeerz]

Heck no, puts me to shame !! I may get back to you on a couple of them, before I start tearing out my hair :((