there may be an extra letter in the wordplay....
1a Beating Conservative for the first time is appropriate to do (7) A??????
35a Touch a water-carrier for Spooner's tobacco twist? (7) PI?????...
This is a seriously good crossword. Nothing too hard but full to bursting with thematic material, something to smile at in every clue. Wonderful stuff, Ranunculus. I can't say I completely understand...
A lovely construction, with fairly straightforward clues. I hadn't come across the verse, and have only been able to locate the vital couplet -- if the rest of it is available I hope somebody will...
1a 'Contract's over in lost card game'. There's a spare letter in the wordplay. I have GRA?. I won't spoil it for others and give away the theme and the modified quotation...but I'm finding hard to...
Another excellent puzzle by the ever-challenging Schadenfreude. There is one misprint, I believe: in 26 across the word length in brackets should be 5, not 4 (i.e. it is one of the 22 clues of the...
Stuck on the last three - all interconnected - 10 across (6) Plants hybrid in Iona? not normally AI?O?OO; 4 down (8) coincidences of fortification wasting away U?IT??N? and 19 across (5) Brass...
This will make sense only to those who've done, are doing, this puzzle. I have completed the grid and thought I had got the theme -but the 'work' I've got in mind does not have the required number of...
I have filled in grid highlighting etc. But I am trying to find the extra letters 'a' and 'c' which I think are in either 6, 16 or 17 Down. ( I have the answers but don't get the wordplay.) Any help...
Anyone else done this yet - fairly straightforward but I can only see 5 of the 6 links - wondered if there was an error in column 10 as 3 of 4 letters that would be correct are there.
Thanks...
I've finished this, but am unsure of one answer. 24 A. Cut out cold Teutonic song (4) ?ied I can see 'lied'/Teutonic song - but then saw 'died'/cut out. Any help gratefully received. The preamble...
Struggling now, having got about half the clues, so some help with these would be welcome! "There is a misprint somewhere in the clue, possibly in the defn or possibly in the wordplay (so the answer...
I'm down to two: 26d 50% of US party leaders will display such personal prestige (4) I have ??na 28a Maitre d' forgetting central piece in oven? (6) I have he?te? Any assistance greatly appreciated....
