Club Monthly 20167 August

[professorplum13]

22d Brass work that's tedious moving over to first place (5) O?H?E
14a tropical plants perish following repeated initiation for Banks in choppy china sea (14) ???F?E?B?C?I?S ..........don't think my letters are wrong but I can't find anything to fit??

[Mamyalynne]

14
Dieffenbachias

[factor-fiction]

ochre

[factor-fiction]

Chore with O moved to first place

[slaney]

22d Ochre - chore with the o moved to first.

[professorplum13]

Thank you mamyalynne, factor-fiction, and slaney
Last 2:
1d In sunshine, it's surprising infidels among the Ottomans (6) R?Y???
11a Unfinished poem, hard in Armenian (5) ??I?H

[professorplum13]

got 11a now HAIK(u) H

[professorplum13]

and 1d possibly rayahs?

[professorplum13]

ah yes I get it now!

[Mamyalynne]

All falls into place eventually, well done. :-)