Can anyone help with the Radio Times Christmas cryptic crossword?
Can anyone help with the Radio Times Christmas cryptic crossword?
For the regulars this ought to be easier than your usual broadsheet cryptic, and I believe I've completed it, am just mystified as to how some of the clues are supposed to work..
34a A posh car taking carriers outside department store
_ A _ R _ D _
So for this I had "Harrods". So "department store". The "posh car" is rolls royce giving the RR. But I'm lost as to how the remaining letters on the poster (HAODS) are "carriers". It almost seems like a typo for HANDS, which would make sense, but obviously doesn't give Harrods, or anything else that makes sense
Help? An I missing something or is this a mistake by the setter?
The carrier is a hod, plural hods. It's a posh car, so that gives the missing a.
Amazing that makes sense thank you
A couple of others I solved but can't parse..
15a Lift recommendation, but not at first
I believe this is "raise" since I have the R, I & E but aside from lift, I don't get it
56a Pass round a less common winter fuel
I already had C _ A _ so deciding this was "coal" was straightforward. But aside from "round" indicating "o" I don't get why "pass" would suggest taking an anagram of that plus the starting letters of "a less common"?
Also, how do Lemmy spoiler tags work?