If you pay an employee HMRC recommended mileage rates for use of his own car on business, how do you calulate the Input tax element? I remember having this conversation with a VAT inspector many years...
26a: Meet celebrity coming over to embrace chosen one. I have E?E?T?R. Could be "EVENTER" which could be a meet celebrity but i can't parse it at all. If anyone could help I would be grateful....
Stuck with three interconnected ones: 1d:Which has a whiff of Conservative stuff that's popular but tasteless (4,6) i have ?L?E?H?E?? and I guess the answer is BLUE CHEESE but I don't think much of...
When I try to log on to this site, as soon as I click on a topic, I am asked for my username and password. If I enter the first letter of my username, it completes my username and password but when I...
I saw an advert in The Times on Saturday for a "hearing device" which costs about £20. Which? reckons that a hearing aid can cost several thousand pounds which makes me wonder (a) Is "hearing device"...
I have managed most of this but there is something wrong. The theme is the state funeral of Nelson. I have one word which is ?AVENGO?E and I don't think such a word exists. Also I am stuck with the...
Clue of the week: Sunderland docks (5, first letter L, a non-Ximenean clue DOWN clue. This comes from the Guardian and as I never read the paper I don't understand. I seem to remember Ximenes as a...
54a: Final round ending in hapless retreat. I have N?S? and I am torn between "NISI" for "final round" and "NEST" for "retreat". Any ideas, explanations or contradictions would be most welcome....
16A: Description of Ravel minuet, one remarkably quiet. I have I?T?Q?E although the first letter could be O (The clue is "fast movement cut by a composer from Italy" which I reckon is "Allegri" but...