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Chambers Crossword Dictionary. ISBN 978 0550 10341 3. about £12 all good bookshops and Smiths. Tells you all about how to spot anagrams,hidden words,double meanings,etc.

Thanks guys, really appreciate the help, especially how the answer is derived, here are a few more from last week I still haven't worked out even by cheating, ie using the internet :-(

Study Rod's returning bird (6)
_ _ N _ _ _

Learner dished out money for cloth (5)
_ _ A _ _

Daughter comes in to mend broken piece left over (7)
_ _ _ _ E _ T

Les as the saying goes "Even a blind monkey finds a nut one day " .....

1st one Condor (a bird).

study = con, rod returning means rod backwards = dor.

last one is....oddment (piece left over)

D (for daughter) in an anagram (triggered by the word broken) of to mend.

PLAID

Paid with L in it for money. Cloth = Plaid

Thanks Terry, Condor and Oddment must be correct because they intersect. But why does Study = Con ?

and that give sus another letter for the other clue : Learner dished out money for cloth (5)
_ _ A _ M

Les, you are correct, I am a Dimwit, the missing letters should have been

_ _ A _ D , the D coming from Oddment,

Thanks guys, off to bed before I incur the wrath of anyone with my basic mistakes, thanks a lot, hopefully I will need less help in the future, Goodnight.

Blind Monkey, just google "how to solve cryptic crosswords", there are lots of very good sites available that explain all the different meanings used.