As I had finished the Times cryptic, I decided to have a go at Azed's crossword. Very humbling! I have managed just 8 answers with a tentative two more. SWMBO says I have spent too much time on it. As...
Me again!. Complete save for 1 across (9) - Rough old evening in Paris for Notre Dame dredger? - ?SP?RSO??; 7 (5) down - Woolly donned by gaucho, an endless emanation coming up? - ?UAN? [the first...
12ac Why is it SURE = STABLE. but how does - prop, they may say - fit?
I think 24dn is ambiguous since 32ac can end in E or A, and either fits 24dn answer....
Have downloaded this from the site and was going great guns but have been stuck in the middle for ages: 16 across (9) Twinkling gays? They're often in evidence at kirk funerals ???R?INGS; 17 across...
A few remaining.
4d. Nancy scorned such marriage (not I), coming up (4)
N?N?
28a. Opponents at table following in sequence turn over card (4)
?OSE
Hints please....
1)ac Places where Shakespeare may have got paid? (4) It's P?B?, so presumably PUBS - why, though? and 21d) Retired editor punching stern TLS solver? (6) ?E?D?R - maybe READER? Again, I can't see it:...
Is 32a SENDAL or SANDAL ? Neither possibility seems to make a great deal of sense:
Food cans end a line on the supermarket shelf
Food cans and a line on the supermarket shelf...
Just a few left, which I have kind of worked out but can't derive exactly. 14 across: It's extracted from palm in farming communes(4) _I_I. I think the answer is VICI 20 across: A conspirator punished...
Sorry if this is a slightly esoteric question, but I'd be really interested in people's views. I'm working on a barred-grid puzzle at the moment, and try as I might, for various reasons I can't...