Independent 8578

[Ripper]

Please could someone help with:
2 down: Good idea, in endless conflict, to face shelters (9)
C_A_ _ _ A _E
11 across: Study where Minotaur was a setter? (8) H_ _ _ R _ T _
19 down: Prayers function in ancient language (7) A _ E _ T _ _
Also the answer to 15 across, is it a 'real' word? I can't find it in Chambers
Thanks in advance

[scorpiojo]

Avestan

[decmangan]

Brainwave?

[Lie-in King]

11a Con-Crete

[Ripper]

Thank you...............
But does that make 1 across GOBI ? (it's a desert but why swing?)
I understand brainwave being a good idea but don't get the wordplay
and I still don't understand
15 across: Pass around back overly conventional (9) P_O_E_I_H
I think "pass" is perish, but after that I'm stuck!
Sorry to be so thick!

[scorpiojo]

P rop erish?

[scorpiojo]

Brainwave - brave + in + wa(r)

[Neveracrossword]

15 Pooterish (from Diary of A Nobody). It's perish with 'too', reversed.

[scorpiojo]

Or even Pooterish, sorry

[Neveracrossword]

Re Gobi. It's 'swing' as in change sexual orientation, ie ' go bi(sexual)'

[Ripper]

Thank you everyone, being old I thought a swing was a plaything, now I know it's another way of playing!!!!!

[scorpiojo]

Lol