I'm really struggling with 2 clues - my brain is addled by too much festive cheer! 2d To take, in French (7) E _ M _ N _ R 10d "A journalist of the baser sort of sponging prophet." (7-8)...
Stuck as usual! 4d An epithet for Aristotle (9) ? s - - - i - i - e. 12a A preliminary matter (5-6)? - - a - t / - r - p - s. 11a A former state of West Germany (5)? - - d - n. Could be Baden. 1d To...
21a use of words in a sense opposite to literal one AND 24a the daisy. If Gothamite is right for simpleton, then I have t-t-p-r-s-s for the first and m-a-s-a-l for the second.
No information today from anyone! Help, please, with 1d "Hole with the Mint". I have l-a-t-i-a-t, but am aware that my 18a Bernese Alps stretch of water may be wrong. Also what kind...
26a - a network of lines of reference in an optical instrument 7letters R*T*C** 21d - whorls of petals in flowers 5letters **A*E 29a - person who tries to block enlightenment or reform 9 letters...
