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hi Malone
As a Wiltshire girl, it does not work for me either.

Glad to hear it (!), Jazzgirl - at times I wonder if I'm being overly fastidious. This phantom 'r' sound (which can make its way into the pronunciation of 'fought', for example) is NOT as common as the setters seem to think.

Elle, sorry I missed your post - it was at the bottom of the page.

I, like Chambers (I've just checked!) definitely don't pronounce 'rhea' the same way as 'rear'.

Malone, maybe a Sloane ranger may pronounce rhea thus :)

...I meant to type "rear" thus

One of the group I was on a bird-watching trip recently pronounced "flowers" as "flahs" and "wires" as "wahs".

(I hope that she isn't reading this!)

Jazzgirl, I'll check with my Sloane-y friends...it might take a while, as I haven't actually got any!

ChrisE, I'd have needed an interpreter if I'd spent too long in that bird-watcher's company!

Yes - often only interpretable from context (though they are loads and loads of wires above the streets in Costa Rican towns - far far more than in Britain - earthquake precaution, perhaps?)

Hello, Elle!
Splendid, you, on the cricket one!
The "barman" in 3d threw me for a while!
7d was a good one. Well done Mr Setter!
I am not sure about 27a.
Work for handle?
I'll see what Anne Bradford has!
Up here, some say "floower" for "flower", and I was thinking "fleur" may sound the same?
I think Ewan was a damp squib.
Fleur, and Gabriel next.
I would not have thought a coffee and an apple would go together?
Are you out of pancakes, perchance?