Something very wrong here or I've messed up big style. a) Consensus say 5d is OPINE, but according to my grid 5d only has 4 letters. 5d. A duck at the top of a tree, say (4) ???H. If 9a is ALTO then...
5d. A duck at the top of a tree, say (4) ???H (poss DASH ?) 9a. Singer left disheartened in a band (4) A??? (was thinking ALTO but why?) 17a. Bone fragment going back to Iran, oddly (5) ????A 22d. A...
2a. Let fool go closer to rich fabric 2d. Head of state in a photograph 4d. Incline added to by the French in secret 6d. Cards boasted about needed opening 10a. Running time restricted by choice (9)...
3d. Tongues, perhaps? (2 words) 4d. Bent time still noteworthy 8a. Gold wreath over a window (5) 10a. Mess left aboard boat (7) 19a. Mistakes made by students going back to school (hyphenated) 22a....
Last ones 20d. Proper abstainer returned, say (5) U???R [possibly UTTER but why?] 27a. A rodent a little Welsh animal (5) R???L [possibly RATEL but why?] Yes RAT is a rodent but "a little" suggests AL...
Any help appreciated, some clues may allude to Yorkshire local words or slang. 2d. Novice angle for a North Sea catch (8) ???????H (although fourth letter would be K if 10a is JACKDAW). 3d. Eclipse of...
2d. Tube not crushed enough? 4a. Shirt not like another garment (5) 5d. Reflection of a popular girl (4) 6d. Boasts about previously minute gulf 16a. Pledge to reverse in a German car (7) 20a. Country...
1d. Teacup Carl's wrongly striking 2a. Weapon dropped by a girl 3d. An inventor upset some flakes 13a. Trouble given to Dudley regularly (5) 12a. A bird flew east from Cuba (5) ????E 21a. Hittite...
13a. Rene's dead right about a weapon (6) ???T?R
20a. Kind of pale individual set back forever (6) I?A???
22d. Amounts beginning to go up (5) ??E?D
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1a. A red claret's drunk (7) 3d. Machine to take from some clots? 5a. He heard from a little outcast (7) 7d. Stains ruin clothing of kids 8d. To be in a film, half a dozen turned up (5) ??I?? 17a....
1a. Dull girl in a short film (7) P?????? 3d. Cold atmosphere of half-finished city 4d. Model looked at fish, we hear 10a. Sailor left on board took a seat 16a. Neat car hard case backs into an...
1d. Receipt bald cast expected
6d. Sad copper feeling anxiety
7a. Judging players round on cheat
22a. Contract - great start? (2 words)
24a. Remaining saw has to cut
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Pretty sure of adjoining letters but I've been wrong before. Some clues may have Yorkshire sayings, meanings or dialect. 1d. Burns beside Hambleton village (8) B???B?B? 2d. A useful chap for fettling...
6d. Reveller put right about ending of party (5) S?T?? 15a. Something fought in time going back to North America (5) B??N? 16a. Light left on before and after sermon ends (7) L?N?U?E 23d. Cloths...
4d. Bird or birds heading skywards 7d. Mature boys from the old country 8a. Server wearing short skirt (6) ?????N 11d. English following called for diversity 23a. Part of a shelter put up high (5)...