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[johnpiper]

7 down
One on right road upset by problem woth deal? (3-3)
think its D_Y _O_ the o may be wrong

22 down
Move terminal for King's Cross in West. (4)
_A_ _ is this MAKE?

25 across
Dare, in North Carolina, to gatecrash nude social (4,5)
Is this barn dance?
cant quite see the wordplay

[Rumbling]

?dry-run?

[baitress]

7d - is tory +rd turned round = dry rot.
22d is mate T in mae(west).
25a - barn dance dan(dare) in NC with bare(nude) around.

[octogenarian]

7d dry rot===22d mate

[johnpiper]

See them all but why is there a T is Mae for mae west...terminal for Kings Cross?
must be missing something obvious here

[baitress]

a cross is a T. a move that is the end of a king in chess is mate

[johnpiper]

never heard of a cross being a T but can see MATE and Mae etc so happy
thank you baitress
quite hard today i thought!

[xwordnewbie]

I think 7 down is dry-rot. one on right may be tory (upset = backwards?) with rd for road, deal being a kind of wood.

[cheaton]

Definitely DRY ROT - problem with deal ... deal is a type of wood.