Se Skeleton 22 June

[PETEREVO]

City behind, but only just B--E--

Rundown fleet less quiet S-E--

Fellow Conservative almost finished C---

Compete against me to establish lead --E-


All help much appreciated. I still can't get my head round properly the way these answers are worked out.

[dannyk13]

1.Barely
2.Seedy
3.Cove
4.Vie

[Svejk]

1. barely

[dannyk13]

Peter, IT would help if you put clue numbers.

[LGP]

vied

[dannyk13]

LGP, Wrong tense.

[LGP]

true but ??e? is given

[Captain2]

4 'Tis only three letters long

[dannyk13]

parsing
10a.Bar(but) + Ely(city)
4d.S(p)eedy
7a.C(Conservative) + ove(r)
8d.V(against) + I(me) +e(stablish)

[LGP]

Apologies Danny I only had the post to look at not the original

[dannyk13]

No problem :-)