Daily Mail

[retrocop]

To All my fellow criciverbalists I believe I am correct in stating that the letter count for today is incorrect. It should be 8 and 5 and not as shown in my paper (7 and 6).
Clue is: Get on a short distance in a beaten up Sierra.
Not too difficult if you have the correct letter count to start with. :-)

[mac44]

Good morning Retro, see 4 posts down.

[dannyk13]

A bit late Retro:-
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Crosswords/Question1631055.html

[retrocop]

Sorry. I have just seen Reds warning when I was still rolling round my pit @0636. :-)

[retrocop]

Good morning Mac and danny. I gave up Early Turn 21 years ago. Yawn. :-)

[Togo]

Yep got me going for a while looking for a word that ended in ai.
13a was elegant.

[dannyk13]

Togo ??

[retrocop]

Togo
13a was Amenuensis . :-)

[dannyk13]

Amanuensis

[retrocop]

sorry. my typo. I can spell cruciverbalists proppa to.!!

[Togo]

I know Danny.....I meant that the clue and parse was "elegant".

[dannyk13]

Ah! :-)

[Togo]

Sorry Danny just twigged that it was Retro who first provided the answer. Morning Retro. :))

Did any one else also get the 4th and 5th letters of 23a transposed? Making 24d impossible. Doh.

[retrocop]

you mean Bowlderise instead of bowdlerise for Liege ? :-)

[JuniperEccles]

I'm stuck on 31d. Perhaps Victoria's name in America (8) - N - M - N --
TIA.

[Togo]

Exactly. I was pondering what m?e?e could be for 24d.

[Togo]

Terminus

[Togo]

Victoria Station.

[JuniperEccles]

Thanks, togo. My problem is I can't spell obscene correctly !!

[Togo]

Haha that doesn't matter as long as you can do it properly. :))