Rico’s A Right Confused Pirate

[satprof]

Alphapuzzle cryptic clue for today. Not too difficult, I think.

[mallyh]

corsair

[emmie]

corsair

[mallyh]

anagram ricos a r(ight)

[satprof]

mally gets it, just ahead of emmie. Well done and thanks.

There’s only four 7-letter possibilities and only one of those has the same letter in the positions of the two Rs in ‘corsair’.

[1ozzy]

Mallyh, what's happened?
You have morphed into a pair of jelly people.

Oh dear, your lovely avatar appears to have gone into hiding.

[mallyh]

i dont know why i'm a jelly bean now x

[1ozzy]

If I don't see the lovely heffalump again I'll sink into a deep depression;-)

[mallyh]

and i'm back ,don't know why i morphed into a bean xx

[1ozzy]

Welcome back!!!

[emmie]

the vagaries of AB.

[Sunnychap]

The stop the clock great alphapuzzel on page 2 of the puzzle section falls into place easily today, having found the E (20) the second across can only be EQUERRY. And the 5th down 8 letter word starts with 23 starts with V

[mouseymick]

Corsair .. 14,6,18,21,8,2,18 .. Q is 15 and Z is 16. Shortage of ‘E’ today.