Strands #260 “Coming Up For...
Quizzes & Puzzles5 mins ago
Apologies, folks, my phone is on the blink again - if anyone is able to provide the shaded clues it would be much appreciated....thanks. 🐨
Hi Steff , and everyone looking in, good evening all. Just back from the local. The clues are as follows:
13a. Any one of various sharps with which to administer IV therapy, align with Earth’s magnetic field, darn, embroider, etch, knit, phlebotomise, play a record, puncture acupoints, suture, tattoo or vaccinate (6)
14a. Cutaneous layer forming one’s birthday suit and likened to a drumhead, orange peel, layer on hot custard/milk, a potato’s jacket, rolling paper or sausage casing (4)
34a. A farthing; a herd of colts; a pithy part of an orange or lemon; a prank; a scrap of cloth one figuratively loses when blowing one’s top; or, something contemptuously compared to such a tatter, such as a tabloid (3)
36a. Crumb, loaf, piece or rooty that, with “butter”, is synonymous with one’s crust/livelihood, sustenance, the everyday or ordinary, a tartine or a “Collins” letter thanking a host (5)