Tls Crossword 1074

[walgraver]

7D - Arthur's location where you can buy wine and let it breathe (7) I have A???O?T
16D - What's South African identity (2,2,4) I have ?T?S???D
20D - black book that's thrown overboard (6) I have ?E?S?M
24A - Persuasion's Sir Walter Elliot was horrified by signs of it (5) I have ??I??

[sandyRoe]

air port

[scorpiojo]

16 it is SA I.D.

[Mamyalynne]

16 It is said - It is SA Id

[scorpiojo]

20 Jetsam

[Mamyalynne]

20 Jet Sam

[sandyRoe]

20d jetsam

[penelope2]

7. Airport (Air Port)
20. Jetsum (Jet Sum)

[scorpiojo]

Jet Sam(uel)?

[penelope2]

I have Jetsum
Jet=Black
Sum=Book.

[Mamyalynne]

No surely, the Book of Samuel?

[Mamyalynne]

Jetsum doesn't seem to exist.

[MargoTester]

Jetsam - what is thrown overboard, as opposed to flotsam

[Mamyalynne]

Sir Walter was vain, boastful and disliked plain women and people of low birth but struggling to find a word that fits.

[scorpiojo]

Aging?

[Mamyalynne]

Sounds good.

[walgraver]

OK, thanks but not happy with aging (24A) isn't it usually spelt ageing ? This affects 22D - upward walk - where I have N???T - the G of AGING doesn't seem to fit.

[scorpiojo]

Aging and Night

[scorpiojo]

22

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Crosswords/Question1418410.html

[scorpiojo]

ageing
ˈeɪdʒɪŋ/
noun
noun: aging
1.
the process of growing old.
"the external signs of ageing"
the process of change in the properties of a material occurring over a period, either spontaneously or through deliberate action.