One last one stumping me after a valiant effort (as so often happens: who can explan that?). 28a One accepted encompassing Parthenon's central section (6). ATHENA parses (AA around THEN) but if... ...
1aVeteran sailor has cash provided by Captain and crew: 9,5 middle letter of second word is A. 27a Tourgee's royal gentleman, one deserting French queen:??i?e?t? I did wonder if it might be Toinette -...
Last (tiny) one! 3D Spring's _Father and Son_ reordered, S?A. Possibly SFA for the initial letters but it doesn't ring a bell. In fact nothing rings a bell. Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA!...
19ac Actor's lustreless putting on drag briefly (7)
I have m?t?m?u
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28ac Deem alterable? Not his laws! (4)
I have m?d? Is it Mede or made or Modi?...
help please and parsing 9a slimy sort of jelly put on the rear of arm 5 G???? 11a linesman from pacific state cut half time back 6 T????? tahiti? 14a those thinking to ditch married folk like...
The upper right-hand corner has baffled me. 5a Waldo author's basis for sauce... T?E?O??, and 8d Copy of Oedipus written up neat ??R?N. If 5a connects to 9a (PESTO) I'm still not seeing it. Of course...
Parsefail once again... 22D Parts of poetry can be a chore for schoolkids. I have L?N?S and my best guess is LONGS (i.e. syllables), while a SLOG is a chore, but that leaves N as the odd letter out,...
Last one! 20a Capulet's first act, clumsily restricting Romeo's entrance. C?A?M The nearest thing I can come up with is CHARM in the sense that to charm is to put on an act, C=Capulet's first (letter)...
1D - "Two, we hear, at Royal Academy on the up in erstwhile capital" I believe is DJAKARTA, but I can't parse the first part of the clue. ARTA = "at RA" backward, so far so good DJAK = two, we hear;...
A small quandary with 10A, "Does a Glaucus, to start with, perhaps qualify as one?" S?A?O? If the first 6 letters of the clue make the answer, I construe SEAGOD. But on second thought, you could...
The last one... 17a, "Substanceless novel about a volunteer group related to Labour." N?T?L, and the only word I can think of that makes sense is NATAL, but I can't parse it. I'm guessing Labour means...
18a Polish horse associated with The Queen and a man of note? I have ?O?E?GER which was baffling until it came to me that it may be polish not Polish, yielding hone=polish thus HONEGGER a man of...
Last one, 17d: Retirees I become weary with, having chronic fatigue syndrome arising. E?E?H?I I've thought of the Lotophagi, the Seven Sleepers, those dudes in "The Garden of Proserpine," the...
Only one little one left, 6a When to bring in training for superiors of Dykes? ?P?S, for which my guess is OPTS (Other People's TimeS), but the reference eludes me so it is just a guess. Help anyone?...
27a Writer about endless fish... fish... A?P?I?G and all I have come up with is AMPSING (ampse being evidently a category of fish, with Johannes Ampsing, Dutch physician and author 1559-1642). But...
10a has me stumped: Play's policy on extremely chintzy decoration. C?M?E?I?E must surely be CYMBELINE (unless the last letter is O after all), but I cannot think how it is parsed. Any help will be...
Parsing fail once again -- 13d "Writer projecting parts for audience in Pirates of the Caribbean" ?U?C?N?E?S must surely be BUCCANEERS, but all I can come up with is partial anagrams, i.e. SEER =...
Had fun with this one right up to the end. 13A Books about daughters left with the Queen's kid. I have T?D?L?R. TODDLER=kid would work, with L=Left and ER= Queen, but I cannot parse the "books about...
Been chipping away at this, down to last two. 28a Marginal note recording trouble about authority on etiquette: a?o???l. 23d Act as a receiver on a television: r?s??