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[Tilly2]

14 d. Shop over which bird weed (9)

I have K???G?A?S.

Please don't tell me the answer, just a further clue.
Is the answer a noun (type of shop), or a verb (to shop), or the name of a weed, or to weed?

Having typed this, I can see it might be knotgrass. I get the grass bit but not the knot, so to speak!

[bulliver]

knot - "either of two migratory sandpipers (Calidris canutus or C. tenuirostris) that breed in Arctic regions".

[Tilly2]

Thank you, bulliver.

Can you help with this one.
15,12 ac Howard, perhaps, mild if - eccentric -cleric. (4,8)

I have ???M D?R???O?

Film director? I can see it's an anagram but where does the 'o' come from?

[bulliver]

film director (Ron Howard) - anagram of 'mild if' + 'rector' (cleric)

[Tilly2]

Thanks, again.
I do find Paul difficult.

[bulliver]

you're welcome