Crossword Page - clues, help or bored

[SeanMacGabhann]

SH r UB ?

[mockney piers]

i was thinking shrub, but couldn't make a double literal out of it. axe = shrub? Is it a type of guitar?

[SeanMacGabhann]

if you axe (take a hatchet to ) Bush you get 4 of the letters. I thought R might be an abbreviation of some significance

[mockney piers]

a bit tenuous. I think to shrub means to prune, which might be closer. I'll go with it for the mo'

Gushing with enthusiasm only to be lumbered with tacky pants? (8,4,5)

[mockney piers]

Some organ in batsman - a real surprise (3-6)

[DaveR]

eye-opener

[mockney piers]

Very good.

Squat, shit, dry end (5)

[DaveR]

Dumpy

[SeanMacGabhann]

* ban request for Dave R *

He's showing us all up

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Squat, shit, dry end (5)

Can't believe that's a clue in a respectable newspaper!

[????]

it wasn't, it's The Guardian

[mockney piers]

Private eye obviously. Good croosword if a little

irreverent. Again good effort Daver

I had got the first one but kicking myself for dumpy!!

[SeanMacGabhann]

Resurrected to accomodate the Private Eye clues on another thread

[mockney piers]

Slightly ironic that the first thing I managed was hit the 'delete this thread' with my fat fingers. Thank god for the cancel!!

[mockney piers]

Sh?t street trader (4,6)

_ _ _ _/P _ _ _ _ _

[Ted Max]

Drug pusher?

Something pedlar?

Not really to grips with this one, to be honest.

[mockney piers]

Yeah I thi k your first answer feels right, it's a bit close to a literal clue though isn't it, double meaning of sh?t being the only crypticity about it.

Ta anyway.

This one feels easy but nowt springing to mind

Goody-goody found in the city area? A big myth (4)

_ _ _ C

[HAL9000]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Sh?t street trader (4,6)

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> _ _ _ _/P _ _ _ _ _

Was it a "bone picker" who collected horse dung from the streets in Victorian times?

[SimonM]

_ _ _ C

Epic?

SimonM

[HAL9000]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> This one feels easy but nowt springing to mind

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> Goody-goody found in the city area? A big myth

> (4)

>

> _ _ _ C

alec, bloc, chic, croc, disc, emic, epic, etic, exec, fisc, flic, floc, huic, laic, marc, merc, narc, odic, otic, pyic, spec, sync, talc, torc, uric, zinc, zoic.

[mockney piers]

It was indeed epic.

Pi (a bitty iffy for goody goody) in EC (the city), big myth.

I have a couple left to get but left my Private Eye at work. Fun for the morrow.

Ooh, this was a good'un

Dick you hold in your hand (7,3)

[Asset]

richard something?

[mockney piers]

Nope. A little more lateral.

[ianr]

Speaking of Private Eye, did any other subscriber receive (or not) No. 1249, the one before the current one, that should have been delivered about 11 November? Mines not arrived yet.

I actually won the PE crossword prize a century or so ago. I wonder what the odds are.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Private eye