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[bamberger]

Would someone please explain the following answers which have baffled me all day.
11a What may be given to bad driver, fool losing his head while reversing? Fine. Ans Tickety-boo. Fine =tickety-boo, ticket may be given to bad driver, possibly while =by and reverse by to get yb -but fool losing head would be ool and not oo.
19a Perhaps leads round twice, following in circle. Ans roofing. Could be round twice =oo and there are lead roofs but I get no further.
18d Problem affecting elephant, a no-good creature. Ans Mustang. Other than a mustang being a horse=creature, I have no idea.
20d King has worry over queen being more powerful. Ans greater. I can see the er for queen but king and worry? Thanks

[novalis]

Fool = booby - remobve b and reverse it
OO = rrounds F = following contained in ring ( = circle )
Must affectcts elephants + a = ng = no good
GR = King George Eat = worry Er = Queen

[novalis]

Sorry about the typos in the previous response.

[bamberger]

Thanks very much. I had no idea that must affected elephants and eat =worry wasn't on my radar.
As a matter of interest, how hard were those clues on a scale of 0(easy)-10 (nigh on impossible) ?

[novalis]

I find it difficult to rate/judge clues especially on crosswords I don't see on a regular basis. I've been attempting cryptic crosswords for over 45 years and various things must have rubbed off along the way. Pushed I'd say about 7.5.