This a Doc (wearing his Didymus hat) puzzle with numbers for words (example a clue giving the length (3,4) to which the answer is "two Jags" would be entered as "2Jags". 18d A lamprey or butterfish...
3d Sailor Rod brought up, a bluff and corrupt supervisor's kid (4,5) A?R? B?C?N 8d Hamper progress of motorway cutting though Napoleon's old home with energy (6) ?P?M?E (my copy of TLS does say...
Stuck on two - 20d A friend in France, being an exiled singer (6) ?M???S and 24a Gently manoeuvred, when in the clutches of revolutionary John, Ackroyd's doctor (5) ??S?T -- 4th letter of 20 is 1st...
Have got some of the unclued bishoprics (the better known ones, of course), but my search skills are failing and grateful for a head word to steer me to where i might find the others on Google or in...
12a Aristocratic address in heart of family plot and garden (6) MI?A?D If the A is wrong I must have got the unclued 2d wrong as well. Gtfl any help. Tks.
Nearly there: 9a Novelist, Gertrude is attending to this girl's style (8) ?T?E???N
and 4d Kirk's caretaker who's beheaded Richard's killer (5) E???N
Many tks....
4d Right-thinking folk (4-8) D???-P?N?A?T?
13a Rarer term for an inhabitant of the Carpathian Mountains region who speaks an East Slavic language (7) R?T?E??
Many tks all help....
Found this a very uneven and uninspired effort for a Times prize puzzle. Heavily-laboured clues like 5d and 10a mixed with others that should have been in Times 2, 1d, 20 and 15d for instance.