Dear Sirs ... Today's Brummie

[joggerjayne]

Dear Sirs

I am utterly bemused by Brummie today.

It is only Tuesday, and this Brummie was stupidly difficult ... surely more suited to a Friday or Saturday than to a Tuesday morning coffee crossie.

I trust that we will be compensated by a kind setter on Wednesday.

Yours,

Baffled of Brighton



ps. Rather than ask for help on the ones with which I struggled, it is quicker to tell you the only 4 that I could get ...

2d. DEARTH
4d. DROWN
25a. EROTICISE
20d. BECKET

(and I'm not even sure about these, because I couldn't get any crossing words).

=0(

[kayakamina]

Hi JJ

Did you try the site I suggested to you yesterday!

K x

[joggerjayne]

I looked at it yesterday, but forgot today, K.

I've spent the day flinging the Guardian to one side, mardily, and then picking it up again, thinking ... "Let's have another look ..."

... and then flinging it aside again.

J x

[joggerjayne]

I've just had a look, K.

I think those were waaaaay too tricky for a Tuesday.

>:0(

(that's me frowning!)

[kayakamina]

You are correct when you say that Brummie usually appears on a Saturday with the Prize crossword.

In my circle he is the least liked of the Guardian setters.

Araucaria tomorrow maybe!

[joggerjayne]

I hope not !!

Although I made a decent fist of the last Araucaria ... I surprised myself.

Maybe Brummie will become my "least liked setter" as well ...

... (knocking Araucaria off his perch!).

LOL

[turast]

5dn think old way of getting sailors for the navy

[turast]

17dn Anagram. Skull was supposedly found here "P_ _ _ _ _ _ _ man"

[turast]

14ac Definition = Lavish Wordplay = 2 words, the first is a word for more often used in cricket, the second is a aord for tramp, without the "r".

[turast]

8dn the head of religion is Rc
The report is the noise a champagne cork makes
The way back is a word for fashion reversed.

[turast]

6dn hock = definition
Have a go at = 3 letter word for criticise
wine initially = first letter of wine

[turast]

7dn def = running at an angle
raised support is the reverse of a 3 letter word for help
the rest is an anagram of along

[turast]

8dn These have been on the TV a lot! Simples.

[turast]

12ac
Def = swindle
jumper reduced is a short term for a marsupial
neck end = last letter.

[Graudian]

turast

Why are you posting answers to questions which haven't been asked?

Also if you must do it why not put them all in a single post?

[turast]

26ac

Def = stop
"Sounds like" an E. European language.

[turast]

21ac
Mate = have sex with
If it has an acute accent on the last letter, it is a kind of South American tea.

[Mampara]

Go Away turast! you are not being clever just very annoying for a newbie!

[turast]

28ac
Definition = informale communication.
If you reverse a word for "TV fund raiser" (e.g. Childern in Need, Red Nose Day) and take out "h". The fund-raiser must be one which lasts a very long time.

[turast]

GRAUDIAN & MAMPARA

I'm trying to get enough submissions to get an avatar.
I'm listening to the football and I'm bored.
Newbie? Please do not cyber-bully me!