Not one of Paul's tougher ones but can't think what 15ac "One's up for playing this Shakespearean character, not half! (4)" -O-O can be. Presumably 20d "New day inspriing cardinal after uprising...
Had to rely on this forum to get clue to basic theme, much good did it do me... SW corner empty, may be if someone could advise on 13d that would help. New Orleans and a case of blue sound (10)...
Suppose 8d Mrs English repeatedly ignored by Courier and Herald (-E-M-S) is Hermes, but why? I see the reference to Hermes's functions and MRSEE but why ignored? 25 a Nevertheless, 25% of service has...
More or less finished, I think, but find it hard to parse some answers. 10 ac Black pipe down to bin I fill with food. B-N-U-T. Banquet I suppose but why? 12 ac Movement between banks' current...
Help with 19d appreciated. Salty islanders losing heart to Norway (7) -R-N---. That would help with 26a (?Printing) which would help with 24d (?Loth). But wouldn't explain why 15a is agitate. But you...
14 a Flog some 7 down. -E-D. (7d is tillage.) Vend?
Help apprciated parsing 3d. Dancer drops letter opener, we hear? 8.
I have the answer (think Santa) but why?
Xie xie...
Large cutting tool's shaft (4) A-L- Awls, I suppose, but why? Don't see parsing of other clues: Cat, a killer losing tail in conflict (Jaguar, but killer?)
Years since I have been as comprehensively floored by a Gdn Saturday prize as by this one. Got most of the bottom half though can't parse 22ac (? know all) or 23d (?owns up). If anyone could help with...
A man wise in conversation around daughter on American prime time? (6) H-Y-A- It has to be heyday but why? I can see daughter and prime time but the rest? Man perhaps is on shortly (4) I-L-. Illy?...
Last one, assuming vamp is right. Black bat carried by tiny wings, a triangular antenna on his head (5-5). I have -I-K- W-N-Y. I had assumed that the black bat was night (as in come into the garden,...
No idea for 18a. Grace Kelly after marriage forbidding and discounting Germans (8) ------L-I (?)
If stallion and Hoboken right cannot see why?
Thanks. (Regrets I've had a few).......
Since I only barely understand the instructions maybe it isn't surprising I'm seven answers short. How do you parse 5a? It has the relevant 5d element but seems to have no connection to the clue....
1ac Motive in man of letters, an anticipatory act (12) would appear to be from crossers FORESTALMENT, though not all dictionaries give it. If so why? If not what?.. 23a, 13a,16a,8a poor clues it seems...
Stuck around 14d, 17a and d, and 20d. Rover possibly, growling (5) H---- The theme is cars (some very obscure). 14d refers to the other two clues 17 a and d. Car operating perfectly starts to come a...
19d Commercial programs showing up in some raw data (6)
-D-A-E
It is programs not programmes. Ony two words I can find are ideate and adnate neither of which seems right.
Thanks....