My brain has frozen, or else some of my previous answers are wrong, Stuck on 24a, 6/4. The clue is A famous Expression of innocent hope= good start after Paddy has to depart. I have -I=P-S/-O-G. It...
I'm absolutely stuck on 6d, Verse form upsets one with a rhoticism (5). I have R-B-I. The only word that fits that is Rabbi, which is not a verse form, and while I tried searching I-B-R in the hope...
I'm stuck on the last two of this, but I think one may be a misprint. The answers are all musicals, My first is a 3-word anagram of I toss dry sheet. If it was sweet rather than sheet it's a perfect...
and unfortunately they cross each other. 23a is one of The Ambassadors, Anglo-Greek characters (5). I have E-C - -. 17d is With which The Doors of Perception entrances(8). I have O-E---G-. Could be...
I am stuck on the last 3 clues. I can guess at answers but can't parse them. Starting with 13a Writer about Endymion, in Restoration poetry.(8) I have R-P-O-T-R, which looks as if it might be...
Fairly whizzed through this week all but one - I have what may be the answer but can't parse it fully. 27a - clue is Spenserian lover returning at start of Epithalamion; you'll see it when he smiles...
Stuck on the last one, 22d. The clue is Frenchman who told of young Remi's sick French book collection (5).. I have M-L-T. Any help appreciated. Incidentally there is a misquote in the clue to 18d...
I have (I think) completed Tls 1292 but I am not completely sure of the parsing of 4a. The clue is What's either side of The Beach and a Swift novel. The number of letters is given as 9 and I have...
Stuck on the last two clues in TLS Crossword 1287, and as luck will have it they intersect. 13a is Bennet's civil servant in a group touring Covent Garden briefly (7). I have P_O_ _ _K. 7d is Possibly...
I am blanked out on 7 down, which is Postal Employee's work as messenger following a rejected plan (6,5). I have A-A-A-/A-G-L. Logic suggests that the second word may be angel, as a synonym for...
It's always the tiddlers that get me. 5d Ballet moves not used by Degas. P-S. I can make a guess at the answer as pas, which is certainly a term in ballet meaning step but is not a plural so parsing...
I am stuck on 10a. The clue is An underground version of dirty Melville peep book abbreviated, (4,4). If my Down answers are correct I have _O_L/_Y_E. Up to when I got the Y I had been assuming the...
It's always the little ones that get me - I solved the 14-letter anagram of 1a no bother without even having heard of the word before, but I'm stuck fast on 15a = Old book with bits of verse and song...
I cannot work out 28a or 7d and must be missing something or have some wrong letters in. 28a is English captain at Australian ground we hear gets a bit of stick from Australian tricksters (4,8). I...
or as they have it 1124. They have also omitted to print the clue for 22d, and 25d, but that has already been dealt with elsewhere. I have E_A_O for 25d so possibly the answer is Erato the Muse of...
Stuck on the final clue here. 9d is "An academic running a railway? Sad and depressing, possibly.( 6, 4)" I have _r_n_c/_i_e. I am confident of all the letters going into it. The second word could be...
This is driving me nuts. I cannot get 4a. I feel I should know it, but I have a total block. The clue is Notes on story with spell in bed, cuddling one who's an adulteress. (4, 6). I have E_F_/B_I_S_...
9d, 9lets, Decorousness shown by two girls heard talking, P?????s??. 10a, Be unwilling for Jock and Jack to argue, ?a?rod. 12a, Blue Jay appearing regularly comes to meadow, ??A. 15a, Bird shows sign...