Found an old uncompleted crossword. Two answers I just don't get the parsing of. 1) Miscievous child cuts leg off its first unit (6) The answer is PASCAL. I get it is an SI unit and a rascal is a...
Last one, plus a parsing query :- It's taken up in hard-bitten academy? No longer (4) ?A?E Venomous creatures in Government succeeded (6) ?O?R?S. Presumably, it's COBRAS, but I'm not very impressed...
I have just e-mailed my solution of this puzzle to The Times. Whilst happy that all the answers are correct, please help me with understanding the parsing of 4 clues : 10Ac: Woman's entitlement to...
Still stuck in top left corner :- Managed to find, describing heirs oddly missing (8) T?R?A?E? Covers of course after batting second (7) I?S?R?? It looks as if it should be INSURES (Covers). IN...
Money-grabbing mother with international group of celebrities (11) ????R?A????
(The clue may not have a definition, but the wordplay will give the correct grid entry)....
I was fortunate to be one of the five winners drawn out of the hat for this competition. First time ever (in 54 years!) for The Times Saturday competition. Winning didn't, sadly, leave me with no...
Unsettled round greenery where last rook departs (7) O?E?D?E It has to be OVERDUE (Unsettled), but I can't finish the parsing. Plant where solitary workman at last relieved (4) A?O? Foreman maybe...
Thanks everybody, I should have got most of those. I'm still not happy though about the parsing of MACAQUE. I get that a CAM is a rotating part of a machine (ie is something that revolves), but if...
Building extensions taken to extend much more than an inch? (4) E??? Suffers with effect of freefall here? (7) G???O?? A magpie, for example, heard devouring small cuckoo (6) A????? 1)Stuck on the...
Judge soldiers retreating, bronze-clad, as enemy within (6) ??O??? One missed in rolling stock, hole for rivet (8) T?A?S??? Theatre character in shape (6) ?E?A?? Bring up boys initially wanting fish...
CotW :- Back in pub, saying when about to drink? (7,2) B?????? ?? (Originally in The Times).It looks as if it is BOTTOMS UP, being MOTTO (saying) inside PUB backwards - but where does the S come from?...
Just the two :- 1) Seeking activity in clubs, Iron Man maybe involved in accident (9,4) S?A?E?G?R ?U?T For some reason the phrase SLAZENGER SUIT keeps popping up in my brain, but I think it's nonsense...
These have been unfinished in my bedside table for over 2 years, as I cannot parse either part of, or all of, the clues. Help please. 27258 1) Free Entertainment is announced in formal document (8)...
1) Comedy hits given credit (9) ?????T??? 2) A little quiet merriment is organised around 1 May once (5,8) 3) Mess up transport? Some may be fired (13) ?L?N?E???S?E? 4) Southern African farmers saving...
1) Reject third of yarn twisted on the outside (5) S?U?N Looks like SPURN (Reject), but why? 2) Golfing assistants ignoring European's coarse yarn (6) ?A?D?S 3) Neptune's satellite's interval...
Last few queries:- 1) Arctic fleet? (5) N?F?Y It looks like NIFTY (Fleet), but why ARCTIC? 2) Father out of bed, as device making breakfast? (3,2) F?Y ?P. It looks like FRY UP - FR (Father) and UP...