Help With Parsing Please!

[michaeljhoward]

12 sheep delay broadcast (10)
I've got 'sleepyhead' but cannot parse.
Egyptian city where God's rejected (4).
I've got 'suez' but cannot parse.

Thanks in advance

[scorpiojo]

Broadcast is the anagram indicator...sheep delay

[scorpiojo]

Rejected indicates reversed...Zeus

[bobbinwales]

12 is just an anagram (broadcast is the indicator) but theres no definition

[Mamyalynne]

anag and refers to 12a


Suez reversed is Zeus

[Captain2]

Zeus reversed

[eve1974]

how on earth do you guys fathom cryptic crosswords? Very smart!!!

[Mamyalynne]

12 was Rip Van Winkle

[bobbinwales]

Thanks. I wrongly assumed 12 was just this clue number. What was the answer to 12a?

[JimF]

There are hundreds, possibly thousands, of "accepted" cryptic indicators, e.g. "rejected" = "backwards".

[bobbinwales]

Thanks for RvW- just seen it

[michaeljhoward]

Thanks - 12 was Rip Van Winkle! That's what threw me. Didn't understand the significance of '12'