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seem to have gone brain dead on this weeks. any help much appreciated.
11d Low Conservative support? Slough gets everyone on board. (11) ------a---n
6d Downgrade official position in a bad way (7)
d-s---l
25a Right to wear goggles before baking wild slugs? (9) ----e---t

Thanks in advance Peter

Hi Peter.

11d looks like CRESTFALLEN (i.e. 'low' = 'c' + 'rest' + 'fallen').

JimC

11d Sorry; got the wordplay wrong ..

... CRESTFALLEN (= 'c' + 'rest' + 'fen' around 'all').

JimC

6d looks like it may be DESKILL ('desk' + 'ill')

25a is GRAPESHOT

I'd just like to say that the 'Jim' - who last posted - was not me.
It may be that that 'Jim' is actually 'JimB' and that his 'b' key is broken.
Or even grandpa, 'JimA'.

Note: the founding father of the 'Jim' family (called 'Jim', strangely) is believed to never have had access to a computer.

JimC

many thanks to the two Jims
Peter

Hi JimC. I'm neither JimA, JimB nor, as you noted, JimC. Just Jim, I'm afraid. I happened to spot the query about the Saturday crossword while I was trawling for help with the Jumbo. I finished the Saturday one yesterday.

Re grapeshot can you please explain how Jim?
Joker

I'm not a Jim, but I suspect he would say:
goggles = gapes, wearing 'r' = grapes, baking = hot, all meaning slugs.

Or something similar.