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Throck, my paper has the Rossendale address for ALL the crosswords.

Thought I was doing well on this one as have the whole of the top half filled in, but have now ground to a halt. Have completed both 8a, 3d & 7d so have 3 of the 'grey' words and possibly the 4th but cannot see ay relevance to the title or any connection with each other, help please!

If there's anything meaningful about the title, I missed it! The same goes for the connection to each other.

Post any clues that you're having trouble with. I'd be happy to help.

Thank you Malone.......you are good to me! Hefty clues for both parts of 6 & 7a would help thank you.

8 A. Topless bloke to bang on about bikini bottoms; who's a lunatic, eh?

The first entry is the answer to the second half. Just an anagram (lunatic) of the two preceding words. The definition is 'Eh?'

For those without the puzzle, there's a shared letter, not given by wordplay.

Second entry - bikini bottoms. Topless = remove the first letter from a word meaning 'bloke' + a word meaning 'bang on about'.

Sorry, MM, I've done 8 instead - I was watching television at the same time. I'll return in a minute!

7. The first entry is the first half of the clue. A normal 'special' plus a service in tennis. I'm not 100% sure of the parsing for the second half - the second letter, given by the third in 6 D (second half) was a big help.

In 6, the entries follow the clue order. Each half is simply an anagram of one word in the clue + the shared letter. You haven't said what letters you've already got.

Thank you Malone, now just left with the second parts of 7a,9a & 10a but I think my second parts of 8 & 10d might be wrong. I am finding it very difficult to parse some of the answers, but I suppose that is par for the course with this bird-brain!

Unfortunately I no longer have the puzzle but all I would say Manic Mary is that you are far from being a "bird brain" if you are attempting EV on a regular basis.