Daily Telegraph Toughie Friday July 6th 2012

[catsrcool]

5dn Reduced meal order by crashing part of filing system (5,5) ???R? ????? 26ac Historian has permission to hold a historical headdress (8) M??????? 22dn Go for extremes of art with bad taste (6) ??T??? KITSCH ?

[bibblebub]

5d) emery board = anagram of mea order by

[blaris]

macaulay, attack

[Muffinbear]

26ac Macaulay

[catsrcool]

Thanks Try these 7ac Eject housing tenant at last, with rent to leave behind (8) ?U????? 4dn Gamble to go bad with hearts doubled, a cause of red hands when dicing? (8) ???T???? 18dn Person of a certain birth as imprisoned by one born later (8) ??????A? ORRIENTAL ? Why is 26ac Macaulay?

[dr b]

4, beetroot (bet+rot with e, o doubled)

[jlangrish]

AQUARIAN

[dr b]

for 7a, you say 8 letters but only show 7. what is the clue for 26?

[jlangrish]

Has Permision - MAY containing (to hold) A CAUL

[jlangrish]

7a Eject is OUST tenanT at last is T, rent is RIP
OUTSTRIP

[blaris]

a caul is an old head covering, permission is may, Lord Macaulay 19th c historian

[jlangrish]

BTW - for those with the newspaper, who is the setter please? as the online site does not show the compiler for this one.

[novalis]

Compiler is Notabilis

[catsrcool]

Thank you all.
dr b the clue for 26 was Historian has permission to hold a historical headdress (8)