Struggling (even more than usual) with this! 3d Paper, possibly "Black and white": r?? - is it red, as in the old joke? 9a Play card and pick up the last discarded: ?i?? ?e?r 19d Do something...
2d For instance, I'm at heart echoing Verne primarily: a?i?o? - can only come up with amigos, but can't see why it would be. 14a Go abroad and produce foreign-language edition with grim version for...
Nearly there! 14a I do close analysis of novel by cold Rhode Island jerk: n?w ?r?t?c - new critic? it's all I can think of, but it seems an odd expression. 9a A princess welcoming royal leader and...
Down to the last three! 11a Reads new second Greco-Latin version of Ezra: e?d?a? Anagram of Reads & something? 4d Sounds like a bird one met in the great hall at Univ: a?l?. 25d Creation featuring...
Struggling with a couple of quotations that I can't track down.14a If she had a petticoat over her n???? ???f? that was all - Conrad, The Rover. Night something? 27a On ghosts of servers and ??????...
9a Sort of groom embraced by fit Maid Marian?: ?a?c?m?? - comb inside another word? Can't find anything that fits. 4d Avenger chosen by a supreme deity: e??????. 12 Fast work made order of disorder:...
7d Sound of heavy smokers' chests:c???e?s. 1d Admission, in case dodgy Conservative succeeded: ?c???s - access? Still struggling with 24a, Trump's position regarding White House: "Expose result":...
24a Trump's position regarding White House: "Expose result": o?t?o?e I'm assuming it starts with out, but can't decide which of the many options for the end of the word is the right one! 7d One who...
3d "Be - , seek husband,wife, whether to pour . . . .", Flight into reality, Rosemarie Rowley: d?s?i?e?t. Blanche who has designs on Rochester home with grand drive: ?n???m. 7d Aussie hooligan in...
Down to last three! 8a A child with a public face:p???o?a. 1d Earth-moving producer of mining output: h???e anagram? 20d "A ?????? in the bush is worth two on your hands" James Thurber: ?u?d?n....
1a Doolittle's figurehead represented in gentle hype:??l?n ?? ????? 7d A ghost with power in Gibson's thriller: ????? ??u???? 10d Running pirate's lot is to meet a monarch in this story of maritime...
Answers are people who have broken the law, whether for good or bad reasons, but not for Covid.
It's a monkey business. 4,5
First Christmas present in the mucky version - a vintage car 4,7,2,8...
I've just seen a reply on here saying that the answer to 26a is Ironic, and another saying that 16d is Diabolic - which is the answer I have, and means that 26a starts with a c!