Can I get some help with 1A to jump start me in that corner? I'm thick-skinned, pressing Conservative with one hour to make a U-turn? (10) _ _ _ N_C_ _ _S (not positive about the N).
I'm baffled by the wordplay in many of the answers today, but I'm stuck on two. K. Lament a knighthood, Spooner, from afar (4-4) K_E_-A_I_. Z. The bible lasts: religion's somewhat daft (4) ZE_D.
Magnesia, for example - or chemical a soldier may use on you (7) ANTACID. Problem about copper - short, fat and beefy (8) MUSCULAR. Only think I can see is CU for copper.
