I am totally stuck on: 1a Crows behind the writer's disturbed rest, taking a year to produce book m-r---/--s-e-- Is it an author or a book? Martin something? 4d Maid Marian meets unfortunate town...
1 23 24 across
number in a shower of rain behind a fairly round object, circled by number of muses
??? hoping to get a clue from this answer as to the theme of this puzzle...
Last two.
Scandalous, hearing about the Third Man? (5) S _ C _ Y. SPICY???
Those whereby duty is getting into going without? (8) S _ A _ T _ N _ . TIA :)...
Turn up old form of address for Georgia writer (6) -A-R-S
Given that the puzzle theme is the US election HARRIS would fit and we have SIR backwards
but how does the clue parse?
Many thanks...
Ace succeeding, old stance, getting to green area (7) P_S_U__ Pasture, but why? Uplifting quite time with love, quietly offering support (7) P_I_T__ Plinths but why? Numbers overwhelm these whizzes...
Last ones (NB some clues have more or less obscure names of birds concealed but not indicated). 26a Daughter aggrieved, holding chap back (6) _A_E_H 43a Aussie's quick look at man friends (2-5)...
I have completed the puzzle but have no idea about the theme that is hinted at in the clue to 8 down: Inequality of computer age discernible in this puzzle (with a single exception) (7,6) Intrigued...
Having trouble parsing some (17d for example) but just one left
(if 11d is right: should there be a double t?)
25a Club welcoming in king after retreat --like King Mark (7) -O-N-S-
?Cornish...
Almost there-- but.... Gravy: cook put a sock in it (4) -O-H. Dosh (=money=gravy)? Gosh (go shhh)? Parsing of Effin' Jeffrey Archer novel (4,2,3,5) Answer is more William Golding but why? Muchas...