Mephisto 2686

[Farrnorth]

A little help please -
11a Suppliers of one having to stop notable dental decay?(10)????c????s
4d Ancient city cherished by Arab from the south (5) ?a?r?
25a Put another way, certain echo? (8) ?t??an??
Thanks

[bulliver]

25a iterance

[bibblebub]

4d) petra

[bundoran]

could be infections

[bundoran]

cairo?

[Farrnorth]

Thanks all.
It can't be infections if Petra is right. Does that make 1a Stories that after penny drops, are...stories (8) p?r??i?s - porkpies and why?

[bibblebub]

yes, remove a P from PORKPIES to get PORKIES

[bulliver]

porkpies - lies
pork(p)ies - stories

[Voulez-vous]

11a) Poticaries

[dannyk13]

Anticaries

[Farrnorth]

If anticaries is right, 3d (River expansion is what follows a course) is not broad?
I still haven't got 21d A first-class blue cloth (6) a?e?se and 23d Veteran twisted in fair entgertainment on the radio (5) ?ried and15a Lead covering in instrument (5) ??tar

[bibblebub]

15a) sitar

[bibblebub]

23d) wried

[Voulez-vous]

23d) wried
21d) aperse

[bibblebub]

poticaries, as given by Voulez-vous, is correct

[Farrnorth]

Thanks everybody