Dear Chums, Sadly, my Slotober has turned into Dumvember. I am grinding my teeth, both of them, on these, 5ac: "Constant work of a policeman going around with a diplomat" (7); and 1dn:... ...
Dear TL ESSERS, Help please: 24 across is: "Dreamer managed to conceal one forsaken" (6) I have M?R?A? and am stuck between Marian and Miriam. The former I can half parse; but parsing the latter, I...
Folks, 1) For TLS 1459 9 ac: "Man with shop drinking alcohol in a tale of U.S. small town life" (9,4) I have "Dandelion Tree." I can see the man, the shop, but I'm blowed if I can see alcohol; and...
Stuck on:
5 down: "In medieval verse, you may see this personage returning to duke with a traitor (3,3,5)
12 down: Opponent of slavery - his poems stir trouble up (4,7)...
TLS 1422: 11ac "Northern staff securing a working farm animal" (8) I biffed Jacobean - a cob, the working farm animal, but, for me, the rest was Parse Over... Help, please....
Last one in and it defeats me.
15 across: Maiden aboard loves seafaring work (4).
I have ?M?O, but the words I've hazarded a guess at: AMMO and AMBO I cannot parse....
12a A kind of shark’s seen on a cold sea front in a tale of island life (6,6)*i*t*r/*e***s and 7d Action by lady inspiring one prompting a person to make fair play judgements (4,6)a*a*/**e*d* Think...