Local magazine

[Ont-ice]

To get me started . Thanks.
Cryptic:
4D Patchwork quilt: investors' and puppeteers? (14)
9D The methods had a horribly macabre-looking insect (6-4 4).
Sorry I don't have any letters as yet for those two clues.

[gen2]

9d death�s-head moth (anagram)

[Ont-ice]

Thanks Gen2. The light just went on for 4D so I'm started now.

[crofter]

Ventrioloquists (anag)

[crofter]

knock out the first "O" O-ice! - unles you are working three dummies at the same tIme!

[Phil7]

We won't quibble over that first I - Hope to see you tomorrow, Crofte, with better luck, I hope.

[crofter]

For "unles" read "unless"!!

[Phil7]

Oh dear, at this rate my answer would have been "Ventroloquis"!

[Ont-ice]

No, just two dummies here at the moment. :-)
One more clue.
Propose quietly to choose debilitating equine shot (3 3 8)
I have Pop the Question. Am I correct and if so why?
(I know it's probably staring me in the face, but......)

[crofter]

You could all do with a gen2-erous helping of Good Luck (That's a pun by the way!)

[crofter]

P(piano) +OPT (choose) + (anag) EQUINE SHOT

[crofter]

O-ice This looks to be a very sharp Crossword!

[kettledrum]

p (quietly) + opt + anag equine shot

[Ont-ice]

Crofter. It's a crossword from a monthly women's magazine and about the only cryptic one I can get my hands on in 'the last outpost.'

[crofter]

kettledrum - you are within the two-minute margin for that rule to apply! :o)

[kettledrum]

crofter - by the time I get to make my choices - usually late Saturday evening - the two-minute rule has no relevance whatsoever!