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)...
Just a couple of parsing queries :- 1Ac Newspaper feature on screen is hit in a big way (8) W?L?O?E? I think it has to be WALLOPED (hit in a big way), but I don't understand "Newspaper feature on...
STUCK ELENOR CATCHES LOUD BORING CHAP BACK HOME FROM TOURS? E? F?M?L?E Who could have orchestrated Brahms Nocturne? ?O?E?T ?????A?N Notes with gardens said to get potting wrong? M?S??? Congress...
It's strange how it happens so often : 2 minutes after my last post, I solved 3 of the queries I had raised. No such luck with the last 2. 19Ac What of Roman Britain's capital? (4) ?U?D Looks like...
23 across Test of a German city (5) ??i?? 20 down First book for each around border (6) ?????? 25 across Part of speech given by one setter literally (8) ?n???t?? 27 across One who fixes tax with some...
11Ac Conductors in Boston have nothing to go on after this (4,5) L?S? T?A?N. It looks as if it has to be LAST TRAIN, but why? Clue of the Week :- McEnroe, say, magnificent on grass (9) S????????...
1) Playing afternoons not on for a prom (3,5) ?E? ??O?? 2) Breaches of the peace in a short expression reportedly (7) A???A?S 3) Where rents go, strictly speaking (2,3,6) T? T?E ?E???R 4) Start living...
1) Make pet harmless, the rule at Christmas? (6) D?C?A?. Looks like DECLAW, but does the word actually exist? - not in Chambers. 2)Monster ("bully") youngster clutches almost tight (8) is definitely...
1) Dark character-forming vehicle officers cut by half (4) ?E?E. It is very possible that the first word of this clue (DARK) is superfluous to the clue, (because it is 4 letters long). It is also...
The Week :- The lowest digit nailed (3,3) ?I? T?E Looks like BIG TOE, but why? The Times :- 1) Writer of verses for Mass (5) P?U?D Looks like POUND, but why? 2) Did well sorting out what comes next,...
Stuck on bottom right hand corner :- 1) Son, drunk, kicks daughter and kitty for no good reason (5,4) ??U?? ???? 2) Old kingdom's relations on mend, after setback (6) ?????? 3) Relative stages...
Two from a month ago :- 1) One clothed in a nudist camp has words with vile men stripped down (7) T?X?I?E The answer is, unsurprisingly, TEXTILE, but I do not understand either the definition or the...
Two queries from an old unfinished puzzle of 2 years ago :- 1) Review total jazzman not using small piano (7,2) The answer is SUMMING UP which takes care of the definition (review), but could somebody...
1) Harry's chum spinning tale before and afterwards (5,2) L?T?R ?N. The definition would appear to be "afterwards" and the answer is surely LATER ON, but how/why does RON = Harry's chum? 2) Commune in...
Just two niggly parsing issues :- By now cryptid must be finally dismissed (3) Y?T. It's not exactly rocket science to arrive at YET(for By now as the definition), but the wordplay....? I've no idea...
1) Royal put on proper coat (6) ?R???R
2) Card game (3) S?? (The 3rd letter is the 4th letter of the answer to 1) above.
3) I'm leaving mum's fishy foodstuff (6) T?R?M?...
Letters carried by KLM? Yes and no! (8) A?P?A?E? It would seem it has to be ALPHABET (Letters), but could someone please explain the wordplay. I have a strong feeling I'm not seeing something that is...
