21a Attacker with inside help. Answer must be raider ie aid inside rer but where does the rer come from please? 20a Father is an employer. ?a?s?s. Pauses fits but is part of the clue missing? Surely...
6d Lance, say the magic word:"crumpet!". Answer must be pikelet , a type of crumpet =pike (type of lance) plus let. How is let a magic word, please? I thought "please" and "abracadabra" were the only...
3a Pays off one pound during evening shifts. Answer is liquidates but how does liquidate =pay off? If I pay you £50 I'm not liquidating anything 7d Stumps politician taken in by endless nonsense....
19d The Danes hold a number and so do we all! Answer is dances (c=100) in danes but where does "so do we all!" fit in please? 21a Properly dressed soldiers are. Ans is "in line". I get the soldiers...
Not strictly a puzzle but couldn't think where else to post. The cartoon has rows of upright intersecting hammers and the caption is "It was the revolt of the woodwork class". Usually the cartoon and...
1d They are single instruments having a double reed to treble the sound. Answer is oboes. Given that this is a cryptic crossword, what is the wordplay, please?...
Last two. 7d In addition to performing just in bra, almost. (2,3,2) ?? ?o? o?. Performing is usually on so looks like on ?o? o? or ?? ?o? on but that's as far as I can get. 15a Toffee-nosed,...
My lack of ability is shown when I can't even understand the given answers! 12a Rovers player on after Caledonian meeting. Ans is Royal Ascot which is a horse meeting and Calendonian is a scot . But...
11a Standard trim not finished. p?r. Par seems better for standard but trimming pert seems to fit the cryptic better but I'm not sure that per=standard. Which one is it please?...
20a 8 Face traveller eating old fungus. Answer was given as mushroom. Mush is face , o is old but how is rom a traveller, please? I thought that rom might be a form of roma but Mr Google doesn't...
29a Nigel is incomplete having just one ball which is a bit of a mess . f?r?a?o. Must be farrago. Nigel must be Nigel Farage. So if we shorten to farag and add one ball -one circular letter being o...
I never even get close to finishing a Dean Mayer. These will help me get a bit closer. 23 a Park surrounded by water ???p ???h??. Absolutely no idea what clue is about. 13d Being beside oneself...
12a Pine nuts lodged in bend in basin. Ans was given as kitchen sink but without explanation. I can see that a basin is a kitchen sink and that a bend is a kink which leaves "itchens" which don't...