york press cryptic Saturday December 1st 2012

[redpearl]

can anyone help with these clues please

8d spilled the beans about party for diety 3,3 s?? ???

30a caught out over redrawing straight line (6) ?e???r

15d dried out a really good colour (5) ?i?e?

[fuzzy-brain]

15d: Redid

[shoota]

15d Aired (a1 red)

[factor-fiction]

diety or deity?

[shoota]

8d Sun God (sung + do back)

[fuzzy-brain]

shoota's answer is better.
8d is probably soy something

[fuzzy-brain]

... or not!!

[Captain2]

8d Sun God

[factor-fiction]

Sun god is good- I got the DO and realised it was GOD but never thought of 'sung'

[Captain2]

30a Vector

[redpearl]

sorry it was deity factor30

[shoota]

30a Vector (anag over + ct caught)

[redpearl]

thanks to everyone for your answers

[Cruciformist]

8d Poor clue. SANG is the past tense of SING; SUNG is the past participle.
Ergo "spilled the beans" should be SANG.
Just being pedantic!

[factor-fiction]

But it could be okay if the tense was HE HAD spilled the beans= HE HAD sung

[slaney]

To be even more pedantic Chambers Dictionary gives the past tense of sing
as "sang or (now rarely) sung. :o)

[Cruciformist]

If I heard someone say, "I sung a solo at the concert yesterday", I would cringe!
"Sung" is only acceptable in the perfect and pluperfect tenses, as factor30 implies.