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Mondrian. If it helps...

2d: (What Robin has) (article) (+) to tweak -> (a live wire)

14d: (Aircraft's leaving) (to go) over -> (river)

foa MONDRIAN

1d.Lets break it down:
VEHICLE. This part is the answer.
SAY. This is an important part of the clue
(though a red herring).Find a synonym.
TO HURRY BACK ROUND. Take a synonym for 'hurry'
reverse it,and put it around the word
for 'say, and you've got it Ihope.

2d.A little bird's outlook from sbove.An anagram of parts of the clue.

14d.Not a good clue."Aircraft's" is a complete off
put. Foul, ref! The answer means the action of leaving and the answer is made up of a synonym of 'to go ovER a river in Yorkshire.


NUFF SAID
WJ

Good Heavens, you guys should get a life! (or lighten up with a good a laugh by reading TURAST's thread).

Terry's set a real poser there. You could spend days disecting and discussing it. I wonder if The Judge is right?

P.S. MONDRAIN and TOPCAT.

I beg to differ on 7a.,it's got a lot to do with a female knight-----Think of a female wolf or cat,
then look up the abbreviation for a knight in chess and what have you got?

TA TA THE NOO
WJ

Even with all your help I am struggling, and I thought I was doing so well last week!

Hello WJ. What I was trying to say is that 'female knight' in 7a has nothing to do with the antiquated system of honours we have in this country. The female equivalent of a knighthood is a Dame of the British Empire, abbreviated DBE. This is the direction my initial thoughts went when reading this clue for the first time. It soon became obvious that nothing could be done with such a sequence of letters in answering the clue. The usual abbreviation for a knight is 'kt', which can be used in chess as well. However, as you point out, 'n' is also used in chess to denote 'knight' (see http://www.acronymfinder.com/N.html).

I wonder what Shazam's problem is with this thread. It seems he doesn't get it, so he thinks it must be wrong. Shazam, we don't want it to be like the Answer Bank, we want to socialise, we want to have fun thinking up and solving alternative clues. If it bothers you so much, stay away. Maybe you should try the Answer Bank.

Well said BEES,good on you Mate

I was rather disspirited by the remarks made about our little group and felt like giving up but you've given me second thoughts.
What's clever about posting answers when most folk want to work out for yhem selves even with a little help from their friends. They will never learn the tricks of the trade otherwise.

BEST REGARDS to ALL

NEVER LET A CROSS WORD GET YOU DOWN

WJ

SORRY TOMCAT, I should have responded to your last post back there and I did'nt mean to be rude about 7a but I had gone the"Dame" route too and went to another reference bookb for the chess abbreviation referred to. Take care.

GOOD SOLVING

WJ

Wee Jock,
Work it out for themselves, with a little help from their friends. Is that an oxymoron.