Times Cryptic 9206

[catsboy]

As appearing in the Australian but an old version of The Times cryptic

Returning officer let me see deputy (5) A: locum . Returning officer and deputy but the let me see bit???..??

Carthaginian leader wanting old sailors to discover fabulous creature (7) A: unicorn Fabulous creature = unicorn OK but the rest??

This writer called out "Sorry!" (5) A: ruing. Why??

[mac44]

officer is col, returning is loc, um is let me see.

[mac44]

maybe (p)unic + o for old + rn for sailors.

[frameshift]

ruing sounds like (called out) rueing, to be sorry.

[Zhukov]

yes Returning Officer...Colonel...Loc..Col
let me see...um...let me think!!..lol

[Zhukov]

still thinking on this one

but I think you may have to find the name of an Author..whose named called out loud..sounds like a word for "Sorry!"

[bibblebub]

this writer = I [the setter]
called out = put RUNG outside of that ^

RU i NG

[Zhukov]

exactly..bibblebub :-)..cheez..I was way off-base!