Anyone else think this was uncommonly hard this week - all the more so since it has been becoming really simple - a one cup of coffee job! It certainly wasn't easy, this week - it's taken me the best...
19 across - This plant the ultimate reason, the rhymester said, for visit by Spanish princess (3,4). I have N?T ?R?E and assume the answer's NUT TREE, but can't think why. Is there some obscure (to...
Have ground to a halt, would appreciate a hand to get me started again, please 7d something vacuumed up, a mistake 5 letters, second letter L 9d intimidate- hit on the forehead, 8 letters ?r?????t 2d...
Hi, can anyone help me with the following pop quiz questions ? 1) Prison Dancing 2) Betraying Preacher 3) Not Bad, Church 4) Glass Wind 5) Blissful State (thought this might be Happy Nation but that...
I've got the following answers (mainly thanks to Answerbank!) but can't really understand them. Can anyone help, please? 37d - Donation, not deception, is needed to limit the overseas suffering....
25a PM who gave service to monarch once, 11 letters, chamberlain? 14a respect old city's given within nation, 7 letters ??a?u?e 36a Winter's horrid hail enveloping European capital, 8 letters ?i?e?n??...
Stuck on bottom right corner. 16 across - Track - dash one end to the other (4) - L??? 27 across - Cuts lines at 14s? (4) - A??? (the answer to 14 is "right angle") 17 down - Retailer in a dip in...
Can anyone explain why 20 down - "Cheap at a tanner (8-9) - seems to be "twopenny-halfpenny"? I get the "cheap" bit, and the sterling connection, but is there something else I'm missing?
3 down - Pasty-looking nincompoop! (6) ?O?D?E It looks like NOODLE, but I don't much fancy that, and I wonder if I'm missing something! 23 down - The ice has melted, you say (5) ?L?E? As above, is it...
I've just realised that I didn't get this finished. Can anyone remember what they put for 15A) English team wouldn't fall out of line, but ball's leaving mark (4,5) E _ I_W_ U _ D 8D) Jolly pair of...
I'm finding this a real pain, this week - last one - 14 across - "Rejecting the imperfections of war is not the real argument" (5,3) - ?T?A? M?N I'd appreciate an explanation, too.
Re our collaboration on the "mea culpa" question this morning, I've been trying, ever since, to figure out your comment that it's an anagram of "paul came" - does this have a deep meaning, or is it...