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SunExp 13/5 - have to admit defeat 6d 7 letters B***m*a - former kingdom of Europe surrounded by mountains

Any help appreciated

Listener 4189, 8 by 13

Best of luck with this one, everybody. I nearly quit with it being a carte blanche (sort of - at least we have word lengths) with indeterminate numbers of letters to be removed from clues, clashing...

hankir

Azed 2084

I have solved the puzzle but do not get the word play for these two clues. 36. First-born died in old coach, as is typical of fiction. (9) ?E?GN?DL? There is only one word that fits and means...

joko

Mauice Sendak has died.

The author of Where the Wild Things Are' that book helped shape my future. As a child I loved it so much, i absolutely loved the artwork, and still to this day cannot put into words why... but it...

D_C_L

EV 1017 Epilogue by Oxymoron

I rather muddled through this cleverly constructed puzzle guessing how down entries were entered before knowing how across entries were entered. However a couple of slapdash entries held me up for a...

Coalminers

Listener 4188 Painless by Rasputin

I can't believe I'm the the first to post this week, so will someone tell me where I can find the real thread. Anyway, very enjoyable, and a subject that I have always enjoyed. Thanks Rasputin.

bond

Excel formula for saving/income

Please could someone tell me the Excel formula for a draw down calculation. Eg If I have £100,000 saved and it is earning 3% per annum (with the interest being added back into the savings), but...

Le Chat

Eternity

Sometimes I muse on this.... If we sent a rocket into space with an everlasting power supply and tracking, presumably it would just go on forever and ever as there is no end. I just can't imaging 'no...

Tridymite

Tricky maths 2

Sorry, there wsa an error. Show that the sum for 1 to k of k.3^(k-1)=1/4[(3^k).(2k-1)+1]...

Tridymite

Tricky maths

Can anyone help with this? Show that the sum between 1 and k of k.3^(3-1) =1/4[(3^k).(2k-1)+1]....

Ric0

Herculis

17d) Spring plant with pink, purplish or white flowers (8) H _A_G_T_

midazolam

Listener 4187: Prize and Prize-winner by Dysart

The lack of numbers in the grid didnt hold this puzzle up for long and now having obtained a full grid, the author, birthplace, the removed five letter collection and one of the three novels...

DocHH

EV 1016: Sentry Duties by MynoT

Hello EV N&Cers Started off by entering the answers to what I thought were quite easy clues, and ended up with an awful lot of clashes! Then the brain sort of marched into action. It became...

Hussar

Daily Mail - Friday

Fianl one - can you assist, please? 5 down: Remarkably, I invested in euros abroad on the sly (9 letters) S-R-O-R-Y Thank you...

majula

herald

semi-sacred in value, but still trashing (10) ???????I?? deadly wife will enact them: sly and corrupt (12) ????e???s?r?

Jonathan-Joe

Russian Roulette - probability of winning

I thought it was easy to calculate the probability for each player of winning a game of Russian roulette but my answer is not the as that given by a couple of books I have. I would be be interested to...

nannybooby

16down

16 down Macedonian figure, often after a brandy A-E-A-D-R (9) all help gratefully received I havent a foggiest...

crockshard

Times 25,146

Poetry in 'clewing'!

mra1

Mephisto 2695

29A small monkeys certainly seen in trees down down under (7) ???O?IS 5D Extra players in strip that is concerned with Northern Ireland (7) ?I??EN? Any assistance will be greatly appreciated...