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Spectator 2608 - Support By Cheesecracker

Matakari | 14:09 Fri 09th Jun 2023 | Crosswords

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Good afternoon, this week’s Spectator offering is far from being tender for me. Hints would be appreciated for the following, thank you.

(Ten symmetrically placed un-clued lights can be entered given consistent support. )

27a Group of stars missing king’s refined irony (7) A??????
34a Late birds dance without it (5) ???T?
35a Conservative avoiding dirty red (5) ??D??

4d They repeat base tasks with delayed runs (7) : ?CHO??L
15d Old German crosses Westminster court (2,4) : A?W???
20d Unknown gunk over E. coli loosely related to mass of bacteria (9) : ?Y?G?????
26d Seabird found by sailor on boulder (7) : ?A???C?
28d Smooth expert nets fish (4,3) : ?????A? ( SAND DAB )

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FleshpotsOfDevon

26a TARROCK

That’s all I can help you with as this week’s has puzzle has beaten me too :/

Neveracrossword

26 The usual three-letter sailor, then a very common four-letter boulder.
4 D Your L is wrong.
28. Yes - Sand = smooth, Dab= expert.
Glad you - eventually - enjoyed the Genius puzzle. It was cleverly done.

Neveracrossword

35 A rather slang word for dirty, rotten, poor etc loses the usual Conservative, leaving a word meaning 'red'.

Matakari

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Many thanks, FleshpotsOfDevon and NACW! I now have:
35a RUDDY
34a DODOS
27a ASTAIRE
Still looking at 15d and 20d, the latter seems to be an anagram.

hankir

Your 27a is wrong. 8 letter word for group of stars, remove R.
15d. Old German is 4 letter ending in H.
20d. Unknown is X, Y or Z. Gunk is three letters, reversed then anagram of E. coli.
Only one I have left is 37a.

LancastrianOik

37a- think of another term for a pouch, then replace the initial letter with a 'd'.

I still can't get 20d, albeit I can see it's an anagram.

LancastrianOik

Cancel that- the penny's dropped and I found the word in Chambers.

flobbo

34a fits with the first two words but how does "dance without it" parse?

hankir

Thanks Lancastrian.
Failed to see that Bill is the def.

20d starts with Z. Gunk is goo. Then anagram of ecoli.

flobbo

And I'm pretty sure 27a is not Astaire

Matakari

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