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Passed over to receive high chivalric honour, as Malvilio was (5, 8)
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Point of freezing river for mediaeval philosopher (5)
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Three left 12 ac: Head cut time for martial art and dance (7) -AP-ER- 24 ac: Escapade of socialist in fashion years ago? (8) -REDA-NE 8 dn: Slow match for Celtic fans? Second-rate and it is backing...
Three left 30 ac: where one feels specially at home? Therein I go(4) ??IO 20 d: book of old jokes to beguile when in hospital (6) SC?GAN 23 d: showy bird in garland interwoven with seaweed (6) LOE??E...
27 ac: Last rites performed by third curate in short time (8) _I_T_C_ _ 22 d: Three males in Gabon, skirting the border? On the contrary (7) _EM _ _ N_ I think the first one is viatical and the second...
Three left. Derivations please. 28 ac:local hillside circled by vehicle eventually (6). ?lee?? 30 ac: head of showbiz gang? That's you right now (6) ?ead?? 20 d: nice summer drawn in, cut short, is...
Derivations for: 13 ac: is this tree with ripe nuts kauri-pine? Yes and no (5) n?yau I think it is noyau but I can't quite work out why 23 ac: old rose bush, stripped including its flower heartlessly...
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14 ac pickles wi' a wee bittie bebbick? That was fine (5) ?R??K
3 d here lies a foreign soldier in e.g. Paris (not unknown) (5) CIG??
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Three left Household area retained by old couple (6) M_N_GE is I think MENAGE. Is MENGE an old word for couple? Lines in middle of boat like fish (7) O_O_ES_ Like a profile of unlit fuzzy part of head...
Just a few left, which I have kind of worked out but can't derive exactly. 14 across: It's extracted from palm in farming communes(4) _I_I. I think the answer is VICI 20 across: A conspirator punished...
12 ac. Topless females on tail of 30's killer? They tremble and quiver (6) ???E?S
30's answer is CLEOPATRA
1d One now remembered going, having heard fellow go for drinks (6) ?H?K??...
New as I am to the observer I am struggling a bit. Some help would be appreciated. 15 ac. Former limb, e.g. missing leg snake has swallowed back (6) SPAL_E 16 ac. Child in tangle making dough (5)...
I don't know what I am going to do when the Independent ceases producing a paper copy on 26th March. Personally I think they are mad. Of the main broadsheets on teh weekends (Tel, Times, Grauniad,...
I have finished but there are two answers whose derivations are beyond me. Guardsman curtailed scandalous relationship outside core group = EXOGAMY Japanese resident, unusual Catholic, mostly upset =...
