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Daily Mail Saturday Giant

Last one we just can't get! 11d Approached menacingly (4,4). Cryptic clue is "approached threateningly, wearied of and mad, now". The letters we have (if right) are: #O#E #O#L Thank you in advance!...
14:49 Sat 26th Aug 20175 answers, last by toptoffee 18:03 Sat 26th Aug 2017
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Daily Mail Giant Saturday - Last Ones

Hi Help required for my Mum please as I'm being hopeless! 53A Ardour / Great enthusiasm does fade away. I get over (7) 48D Crazy / /Mad when I got in her way, clumsily (7) 61A Central part / Central...
16:02 Sat 11th Mar 20178 answers, last by MargoTester 16:46 Sat 11th Mar 2017
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Daily Mail Giant - Saturday

Last one! 39a "Charming" 5 letters. Possible pattern is S_O_T but we think we may have well made a mistake. The corresponding cryptic clue is "Prepared, when we go in, to be charming". Thank you in...
16:34 Sat 06th Aug 201614 answers, last by mastercraft 14:59 Tue 09th Aug 2016
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Daily Mail Giant

Totally stuck on this one: 60d Emerging talent (5,5) "our marbles claimed by foreign country" Possible pattern: ??A?N ?R?I? Thank!...
15:40 Sat 09th Jan 201612 answers, last by fiction-factory 15:53 Sat 09th Jan 2016
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Daily Mail Giant

Stuck on the last 2 and not sure if I've made a mistake: 47a Inform on (4 letters). 'Buy or perhaps sell information'. 70d Toughened up (7 letters). 'Gave lift back in vehicle. Got caught in traffic'....
14:28 Sat 02nd Jan 20168 answers, last by retrocop 15:08 Sat 02nd Jan 2016
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Dm Giant Saturday

56a well done lad, 7 letters, cryptic clue 'tied up boat in Tay, drifting? Well for lad!'. Any thoughts folks?
15:01 Sat 19th Sep 20155 answers, last by dannyk13 15:03 Sat 19th Sep 2015
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Dm Giant Saturday

75a money (money a note uttered) - I've put 'wonga' but don't get how it works with the cryptic 4d slightly mad (felt to be unbalanced) - I've got 'wobbled'? 17a prattle (rattle the speaker) - I've...
15:08 Sat 29th Aug 20153 answers, last by dannyk13 15:30 Sat 29th Aug 2015
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Dm Giant Saturday

66a Be quiet! (For some whistling an order to be quiet) - I've got ?I?T, though wonder if I have 51d wrong - the clue is 'shed' and I've put 'lean to' but can't get it from the cryptic (cat catching...
15:19 Sat 22nd Aug 20155 answers, last by corylus 15:29 Sat 22nd Aug 2015
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Daily Mail Giant - Saturday

My Mum's not v well today and so is struggling a bit - I've tried to help but am clearly not yet a crossword wiz - any help on the below would be really appreciated by us both - thank you in advance!...
14:28 Sat 04th Jul 20154 answers, last by MargoTester 16:21 Sat 04th Jul 2015
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Daily Mail Giant/cryptic 33A

33A well-bred (4,5), cryptic clue is 'like the well bred soprano's voice'. I have ?I?H ?O?E? - last one left and just can't get it! :)
16:40 Sat 23rd May 20154 answers, last by toptoffee 16:43 Sat 23rd May 2015

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