As so often, can't get last one or two (this time, two): 40a What is fiery spirit that's removed skin more than once? (4-4). - I - I / - I - I 49d Play guitar endlessly with Queen's introduction (5)....
Heck! Missed one letter. Definitely the last one: Paddy's to wander in road, not quite reaching lough (6). I have STREE - (I just can't see how it might work -- and I know I'll kick myself). Sorry to...
Just two left and driving me crazy: 4d A custom with imbibing the French or the German wine (7) AUS - - I - (Austria? But if so, why?) 28d Tree dancing girl climbs (4) AML - (What on earth can that...
Yet again, the very last one. He scored runs till finally stopped by hail (5). R-V-L. Obviously RAVEL (he scored) but how does the rest work? It's driving me bonkers.
Very last one stumps me as ever. 47d. Unfinished novel about old work of art (6). -R-S-O. FRESCO work of art but why "unfinished novel". I know I'll kick myself, so go on ...
As every week, just the last one I can't get. Well, today two but linked: 20d One on the pull over short time becoming shyer (7) T - R - - -R. If NEWSPAPER is right, then THROWER? But why? Cricket?...
As so, so often (it must be an illness), just the very last one has stumped me for over 10 minutes: 16a Favourable slant about cuts (4). Why NIPS? Cuts, I can see, but favourable slant, I can't...
I'm stuck on the final two:
(a) 32d Country soldier attached to a Continental city (7) P-R-E-A
(b) 38d As ponies may be most advantageously used for transport (10) -I-T-I-D-N...
Stuck, as ever, on very last one: 32d Much-loved grey maroon flower (6,6) -E-E-T -R-H-D. I know very little about orchids (if that -- but what else?) and all my internet searches have produced nothing...
As so often (it must be pathological), I can't see the very last one. 6d. Don't read all I'd written about horse (3,4). D-P / -N-O. Please put me out of my misery.
Forgive me kayakamina, bibblebub et al. As every week, inexplicably I just can't get the very last one in each crossword, however much I think about it. 48a. Pumps carbon dioxide into predetermined...
Very last one stumps me as so often: 24a. I'm surprised by time taken in set and secret rites (9). MYSTERIES fits the letters I have, but can't see why. Can anyone send me to bed with a sense of...
Three last ones I can't get: 1a. Great round takes place, making point (4). G-S- 23d. Man in central parts of Spain missing Cornish pasty (5). A---N (middle letter is H if 25a. Chinese gong not...
Last two have stumped me for close on 20 minutes, so in the end I need help:
65a. About to be found back in pyjama cricket (5) C-R-A.
26d. Dry explosive in a letter from Athens (5) T-E-A...
Just to be sure, since I already made one error this morning: 22d. At work, nurse's 1d (6). I-D-E-. "1d" is italicized. (and 1 down is DESIGN). I have INDEED (= at work? 1dn - ind) but I...
