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1d Rowing thus to have begun, Off went the Olympic gun (7,7)
I have R ? Y ? I ? G// ? ? ? ? ? E ? I am thinking of rhyming but what?
5d Road junction to which beer enthusiasts return (6)
I have T ? R ? A ? I think the road junction is T, but really have no ideas
18dHot fortnight perhaps on French island? (7)
I have ? ? ? ? I ? E. I think the French island may be ile.

17a Coarse content of shoals, in more ways than one (6)
I only have ? ? ? ? S ?
22a Bush is one occupying bar stool (5,4)
I have ? ? ? ? c // ? U ? R
I think the second word may be burr, but I cannot come up with a bush - maybe it is a president

We get the guardian about a week after you guys, this was published on 16 August.

1 rhyming couplet

Hi jabiru
Guardian crosswords are available online here:
http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords
Answers and parsings are available here:
http://www.fifteensquared.net/
Do you want hints or answers?

5 tarmac - junction = T with camra (campaign for real ale) reversed against....defn = road

Tanks Chrisg. I can see it now. I will have to get my mind into gear.

Jabiru

Chris g presumably the camra is an English institution so I can understand how I was totally lost.

Chrise. I am looking for the solution now. (I am a real novice with Philistine) But appreciate the direction to the guardian website and to the parsing.

Jabiru

Hiya Jabiru,

Think you have something wrong by the look of it

Oafish - coarse
Pubic hair - i inside pub chair

Hope I don't get banned

Jabiru
See the link below
http://www.camra.org.uk/

yes, I spelt gaucho incorrectly as guacho, Once I got the P for pubic it made sense.

And oafish is okay with fish being the content of shoals, but the oa? here it is the Order of Australia.

Verry interesting. We antipodeans are not always aware of such movements.

Still that is what cryptics is about - broadening the education.