Saturday Yorkshire Evening Post

[askyourgran]

27d Mural too wrongly depicted American plant. (4-4) A-U-/R---
28D Water-towers (8) T-G-----
24D Not having benefitted from the class system

36a Fox somewhat bothered by larva (2-3) --BAT
39a In an advantageous position in front of ones rivals (5-2-3-4) Ahead --/---/-a-e.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you

[Mamyalynne]

39 ahead of the game

[shaneystar2]

27 alum root

[mac44]

27d. alum root
39a. ahead of the game

[Mamyalynne]

24 uneducated = letter count?

[Flyhalf]

28 d tugboats

[shaneystar2]

36 Ox Bot

[Wharton]

28d tugboats

[Wharton]

BIGJACK
Apologies - didn't see your answer.

[askyourgran]

Thank you everyone. The 24d turns out to be Unschooled mamya.
Shaney I couldn't get Ox Bot don't think I would have got that at all.
Obviously not concentrating tonight. All finished. x

[gen2]

Surely for the wordplay to work, the wording of 36a should be
Fox bothered somewhat by larva (2-3)