Sunday Express Skeleton Sunday July 19Th 2015

[jellybun]

Sorry it's me again, I'm still stuck, these are the last ones I promise.
3ac Chap from a mega city.... 5L - M - A -.
13ac Mass - it's far from over. 3L T - N.
27ac Seers are back, of course. 4L - - - S
2dn 2It's a city," Mark states 5L M - L - O
20dn Why gin upset a company. 5L P - R - -.

[fiction-factory]

TON

[fiction-factory]

A M MAN

[fiction-factory]

m Al Mo?

[fiction-factory]

parta?

[fiction-factory]

party?

[fiction-factory]

Ignore parta- party is better but I'm not totally convinced

[scorpiojo]

27 Eyes

[mallyh]

20 party ....trap reversed + y

[scorpiojo]

Trap (gin) + (wh)y

[fiction-factory]

I could see the TRAP (gin) upset bit but wasn't sure how the Y was arrived at

[scorpiojo]

(Wh)y trap

[jellybun]

Thank you all very much for your help.

[fiction-factory]

Thanks scorpiojo. I still don't really see why we use the Y from whY. I know answers are sometimes hidden in the clue but in this case it's running backwards after gin is replaced by trap.

[bibblebub]

'why' sounds like the letter Y

[fiction-factory]

Thanks bibblebub. Yes I considered that when I suggested PARTY but there is no 'sounds like' indicator

[fiction-factory]

Sorry if I'm making hard work of this. I've never been a regular cryptic crossword solver and I'm always trying to improve