Problem with alternate spellings:
14ac Crook's lousy chat declining each year(8)
Answer is crummock, I think rather than crummack based on instruction to decline y as in cracky.
Am I correct?...
Stuck on two intersecting clues: 50ac: Test match venue to be announced-engaging male talk 3,5 I have ??e ?a?b? 50dn: Inclined to avoid people raising most of strong material (5) I have ??m?d...
28ac Eatable grass in some places eastward with no filling item on menu,(6) I have e?d?s? Both eaddish and eddish refer to edible mown grass. The first is an obsolete version of the second. The clue...
30ac Nobel laureate's novel has beginning in Kurdish- or a verse
I have s?k???i?
Also 26d Cosy home, quarter- filled, in SW Asia
I have n??? e?d?
Hard going today.
Help appreciated....
19ac Native starts to get homesick coming out of S coast resort (6)
I have ?r?t?n
Briton? Breton? Cretan? or something else?
Please explain.
Thanks....
Help needed. This is somewhat academic as there are alternative spellings for three of the other answers. However, I'm stuck on 19 across: Spanish gunmen choose endless confusion (5) where I have...
42d Clever Dick's telegram closes case that's resolved (8) I have ?i?n?c?e, and am thinking binnacle, but can't parse this. also 46d Illiterate woman was in a dive(7) I have t?e?e?n therein? thereon?...
