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[lashley]

help please and parsing
1a fair blood relation in awful surroundings hardly seen 4,7 ????/??????E
17a show crininal the cooler 6 ?I?C??
29a arcade piece is just for show 5 ???EE?
40a head over heels,finally fall in love 3 ??L
thanks

[bobbinwales]

NIL

[bobbinwales]

29 is it 5 or 6 as shown??

[lashley]

sorry-29a=5 ???E?

[Neveracrossword]

29 Token double definition.

[Neveracrossword]

1 Just Visible

[bobbinwales]

air con

[bobbinwales]

If that counts as 6 not 3,3 or 3-3

[Neveracrossword]

1 Just = fair, Sib = blood ewlation, Vile, awful. Surroundings = enclose parts, so Just Vi sib le.

[lashley]

thanks both

[Farrwest]

Can I hitch a ride on this post and ask what the answer is to 32a Letters for the sextons' rooms (5) ?ET?S If BETAS why and what does that give me for unclued 23d? ?OB?E? Thanks for help.

[elliemay1]

zetas
//zeta: The sixth letter of the Greek alphabet. ... applied by some writers to the room over the porch of a Christian church where the porter or sexton lived ...//

[Farrwest]

Many thanks elliemay1

[elliemay1]

23d Your 3rd letter should be E, if token is correct for 29A

[elliemay1]

Farrwest, I make the pattern for 23D P?ET?O

[ProfessorMaisie]

It looks like Farrwest meant 25d (not 23d) and as it's ZETAS at 32a the pattern is ?OZ?E? (not bETAS and ?Ob?E?).
The answer is paired with unclued 8d, by the way.