Rte Christmas Crossword. 8 Down, 12 Letters No Need To Draw A Map To Get This Down, Just The Drawer.

[Sorcha11]

Think it begins with a P

[Sorcha11]

48 across? Imagine, without the East around, would there still be a problem? 6 letters - - I - - -

[vinpaul]

Anybody get 19down. The strange clue. 5 Letters ?E?S?
Lower case t .... capital S.
One other left. 50dn. Lime stone (4) ?A?E

[dannyk13]

48a. Enigma

[elliemay1]

50 cape

[Mamyalynne]

How are you parsing Enigma Danny?

I tried last night and failed.

[Mamyalynne]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Crosswords/Question1686367.html

[Sorcha11]

Thank you so much everyone. Some of the questions are ridiculously hard.

[Sorcha11]

19 down is Yeast I think!

[dannyk13]

Lynne= imagine minus i (letter east of imagine) Best I could come up with.Some setters use east and west for first and last letters of a word.

[Mamyalynne]

I tried that last night Danny (see link) - the easternmost letter in 'Imagine' is 'e'

[dannyk13]

Doh, it is,Must learn my compass points.In that case, like you, I can't see a parse, but am pretty sure enigma is correct.Must admit there are some dodgy clues.

[elliemay1]

Any ideas on parsing Yeast??

[Captain2]

Re: Yeast

It may be better if we could have a definite way the clue is set out; we've had two alternatives so far

1 t....Y
2 T .... S

which is correct?

[elliemay1]

maybe if clue was 't then vertical space ending in Y then Yeast coming upwards meaning Yeast rises?

[elliemay1]

^ a bit like a ditloid!

[VanZan]

That's the RTE Xmas Crossword for you......you spend an hour or more getting 90% of it done. Then you get a clue for which there could be 3 or 4 different answers with no way of being sure what is correct.

[shaymus1]

8 d Cartographer
6a crackers

[Hugglepuffwannab]

Yeah I just put in Yeast for 19d. I guess it kinda makes sense. Thanks

[Theboss50]

Cartographer