1. How pleasant it is to be no longer a teenager (5-3-6) _ _ _ E _ / A _ D / _ W _ N _ Y 2. Money, nothing else, say, I obtain from a central Asian (8) _ A _ _ _ I _ I (Bahraini?) 3. What a change in...
I should start by saying that the clues aren't necessarily the normal cryptic ones you are used to. I need the answers to 2, so here goes: 1. Yet again the team has suffered relegation to a lower...
5a A runner's last in race - hit by javelin maybe! (7) S _ E _ R _ D (Speared?) 26a Possible material for sculptor - pumice? (4,5) B _ T _, _ _ _ E (Bath stone?) 28a For surgical assistant, vital...
13d Poet's slow eating almost scalding potato (6,5) T _ O _ A _ , H _ _ _ _ (Looks like Trojan Horse, but why?) Will end in either Y or E, depending on 25a being either Geyser or Geezer 22a Tether dog...
3d Quartet addressed, before audience, elevated road transport (8) E _ P _ O _ I _ (Euphoric/Euphoria?) 5d Well-equipped to take on champ and upset also, in your case (6) T _ O _ H _ (Is it Toothy?)
A neighbour claims that in the 1940s (possibly during the War), the Boat Race took place on the same day as the Grand National and the FA Cup Final. Can anybody please confirm and quote the results...
1. When a tree stops one playing a shot, there is no rule to allow this (3, 2, 4) C _ T, _ T, _ O _ _ (Surely it is CUT IT DOWN). If so, the last letter is the 3rd letter of the next clue:- 2. Having...
I've been submitting a variety of crosswords, to national newspapers, for a number of years. The only other prize I have won was for the Saturday Telegraph Cryptic crossword (runner-up ?12.50), about...