Nearly finished -- a rare achievement with a Myrtilus! -- but stumped at SW corner. For 22d Wolf beer and one's spirit is lifted, I have AMEER (beer minus the b, with ame=soul above), but then 26a...
Stuck on the very last one! 26D, We hear cider drinker would show the way, ?E?D. Don't see a ref. to _The Cider House Rules_. Learned from google that Devon Colic was caused by LEAD poisoning from...
Am stumped on the last 2 short ones. 1A A gigantically snotty fellow? I have ?U?G?S and all I could come up with was (heh) DUNGUS. Also 13A Article written about quiet and droll linesman. I have ?A?H...
Down to the last one -- 11a, Talk about hankering for Gossip in a Library? I have ?H?T?H?T and what suggests itself is CHITCHAT, but I can't parse the "hankering" bit. O' course I could be completely...
Finished except for SE corner --24d Passage from Vidal's debut put off dean. I have A?L?? and am guessing ALLEY (=passage) but if the reference is to Gore Vidal's Williwaw it eludes me. If correct,...
Have actually solved it (I think!) but am unable to fully parse a few clues. 5d Rumpole should know all about this rubbish as is found in backward country. Answer has to be STATUTE BAR, and I see the...
Have finished except for one: 21a Top wingman (right) kettled by City's stars. I have L?C?N?A and the only word I can think of that fits is LACONIA but I doubt the answer has anything to do with...
Almost finished, stymied by just one: 21A, Young male artist - a WASP? I have ?U?S?A. If allusion to Portrait of the Artist, it eludes me. If play on wasp=vespa, it also eludes me. Help?
Solved except for one short one! 23d Arnold (or Allen) initially gets confused about his angry entrances. I have G?T?S, and it seems like the answer must be (initial) A + GETS, so GETAS (Thracian...
Have tentatively solved this one, but am unsure about two answers. 15a Relations in thrall of outrageous canto I quote, C?T?T?O? I have CITATION which has anag. of CANTO plus CIT[E]=QUOTE, but I can't...
Going great guns on this one until I got to the last -- 10d Only mystery on the radio discovering a body in America (4,4): S?U? C?S? Possibly an anagram with CORPSE (or CORPUS)+US? No combinations...
Mirabile dictu, I've almost solved this one. Just one answer to go, 18d Tangle with football team when number 10 replaces last three. I have ?N?E?M?X and though I live in the land of the Cheeseheads,...
Just one left, but it's a long one! 13a "Unions kept secret suggestions about work". I have E?O?O?E?T? and am completely blanking on an answer (or rather 5 blanks, ha ha). Any help would be much...
It's used to prevent shock, one putting saline in treatment(10,4)I am pretty sure it is Insulating/Insulation Tape but a) do not know which one and b) can't see why it is the answer-an anagram...
Yes, I am down to a short one again. 3D Acknowledge "mad bad" appeal. I have A?M?T which I think must be ADMIT, but what is the connection to either Byron or Villon??...
Great fun doing this one, but at crossroads. Two teasers. So, readers,Baron Bizarro turns out to be a person's metronym(8,6) *E*N***O/*O*R** First bit Leonardo? and Enlightenment produced by briefly...
Very well, I find War, Famine and Pestilence, but what answer can be construed to be the fourth fellow?? (Disclaimer: I haven't quite finished this one, owing to late delivery of this issue here, but...
As usual, one last short one has me stumped. 22D Incite to fight -- held by Tybalt -- arrested. I have T?R?E and the only answer I can come up with is TERSE, which sort of fits "arrested," i.e....
A will I am reading (1846, American) mentions bequests to a "niece" and a "little niece." I initially took this to mean older niece and younger niece, but matching these terms to the individuals named...
stuck on 3 in each of the top right and bottom left corners! viz One of the Ladies Day girls recalled longing to embrace men ?O???F; Tory part name for a political novelist ?O???U; Member states made...