Rte 30

[scooke]

17d blame and shame (9)?i?????i?
21a a character of no note? (4)??r?
25a... crude,offensive,and rather smutty even (6)???r??
26d what really does come out of such poetry? (4)??e?
4d...and in irish I Malian n.a. Gaeilge (4)?g?s
27d sheepish nonsense (4)b?a?

[Flonska]

17d Discredit

[Captain2]

21 Card
25 Coarse
26 Odes
27 Blaa?

[Flonska]

21a Card

[fiction-factory]

Given the ellipses, what was the answer to the down clue immediately before 4d please?

[scooke]

4d should read mblian not malian sorry

[scooke]

3d is acted

[Captain2]

I think you may need a Gaelic speaker to answer 4d

[Captain2]

.... ah, if you translate 'AND' into Gaelige you get 'AGUS'

[Captain2]

Good old Google

https://www.google.com/search?q=translate+%27and%27+into+gaeilge&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b

[ducksie]

You're bang on Captain,it's agus, basic Irish

[Captain2]

Go raibh maith agat Ducksie (hope that's correct, don't want to insult you).

[ducksie]

That's perfect,
Dé do bheatha,You are welcome

[magcrossword]

4d....agus

[Wagesman]

An-cheart ar fad. 27 down folks: sheepish nonsense? I'm guessing BAAH as in bah humbug though Blah and blaa would also work.

[elliemay1]

I would go with Baah

[Shenco]

14D Up and down one goes on a helicopter. I have R - T - N
I think answer is Roton. The last n would not fit in with 21A (see above) as previously answered CARD. so is answer for 21A ...CONN ?

[dannyk13]

14d. Rotor (Up and down)

[Shenco]

Thank you dannyk13 Didn't see ROTOR. Trying to understand Card for 21A .. CONN would be the initial letters of the clue. Is it card instead of note for money maybe?

[dannyk13]

Card is given a couple of times above.

[Shenco]

So it is, thank you.