crusader saturday

[woodhamgirl]

can anyone help me finish this please -
1a defender finiding a drug in a broadcast B?A?D?A?
5a extremely sad us solder in cart, returning ?R????
12a one woman returning to one conservative being foolish I?I?G??
7d upstart in gold showing remorse ??ING (thats if ive rightly guessed it ends in 'ing'!)
8d conservative on about smell coming from curved street ??E???N?

sorry theres so many - dont usually get the saturday paper

[Sandy-Wroe]

8d Crescent

[vegasmad]

5a. tragic - cart backwards around gi (soldier)

[woodhamgirl]

thank you - ive been racking my brains as to what a us soldier was called!
with what youve both given me im obviously wrong with one of my answers -
12a is that now ILLOGIC?
7d is it GOING?
and what is 1a

[Sandy-Wroe]

7d Ruing?

[woodhamgirl]

ive been given traGic for the clue across so it makes my letters G?I??

[ladyalex]

12a IDIOTIC ??

[woodhamgirl]

thank you ladyalex - or is that what you were calling me!!!

[ladyalex]

Absolutely not!

Happy to help , if it has :-))

[mutt53]

!a Guardian (a drug in a )

[woodhamgirl]

Thank you all very much - can someone just confirm that 7d upstart in gold showing remorse is GLINT?

[ladyalex]

I think maybe GUILT would fit the clue better ?

[woodhamgirl]

thank you again ladyalex - maybe you were right with IDIOTIC!!!

[ladyalex]

Have you got everything now ?
LOL
Happy to help :-))