After last week's toughie, I was hoping for an easy ride this week - especially as we are off on holiday very soon. So, my heart sank when I saw this mixture of truths, half truths and lies. Probably...
I'm progressing slowly and could do with a bit of help! 11 across: Former star ultimately succeeds alto in musical performances (8) C_NC _ _ _ A I feel it should be concerta but don't know why. 4...
This is a brute and I've got only about half the answers. Clues are not listed as 'across' or 'down' and extra single letters are yielded by the wordplay in all clues. After one game I express...
Please can anyone help me with what to write under the grid.
I'm all filled in and have highlighted the two thematic words in the grid, but have no idea about the third word.
Thanks in advance...
In this, the wordplay has either one letter too many or one letter too few in each clue. 15 A. Monetary units' questionable karats (5) ??k?? 1 D. Orderly combined operations in charge after the people...
Last one. Being the possessor of oxygen-enriched muscle switches. It's complicated but I have B?AS?I?G which I'm pretty sure is correct and therefore it looks like boasting should be the answer but I...
Have solved it but two answers do not make sense. 9A. Setters possessively appropriating social hum (5) O?O?R The only word that fits is ODOUR. Do in Our? Social = Do? and hum = Odour? 25D Dramatist...
Hello I'm a bit perturbed about 5 down: Strap bone with a finger ring (7) (there is a misprint in the definition) But, there are only 5 spaces on the grid, so is a 5 or 7 letter word (or am I going...
(sorry started on wrong site, apparently) - so repeat here : Well, we had all been moaning that the Big L was getting to be the Big EZ ... not this week, mefears but after a mammoth struggle, have now...
Anyone completed this? I have cracked the theme and obeyed the instruction accordingly with the preamble. However I find that the last entry which fills 48ac is one letter short. Anyone in same...
Last one. 22 down. Nice setter leaves(4) I have M?T?.The clue is undefined and leads to the entry of a partner. I am presuming the answer is jeff leading to the entering of Mutt, but I cannot get any...
I have completed apart from the highlighting, I can see one of the first two words of verse which are the same in top right hand section, but after hours of looking, I guess its something completely...
1 D. Old spray in stream? Right! (4) ??a? (Possibly ??ar) 5 D. Irishman getting horse dropping head (4) ??i? This puzzle says 'extra letters created by wordplay in these clues provide a quotation'....
20d 9's heart lifted , I gathered, over 7's opener. (9 is Beethoven, 7 is Albion) E?I??? EROICA would fit the clue but not my letters - the "I" came from 22a John breaking joints, back for...
