Crossword Help Forum
Forum Rules

11a pity = ruth
up = out of bed
up pity = self important

16 EXE C (R) ABLE
EXE = RIVER
R = OTHER RIVER
CABLE = 200 YARDS (NAUTICAL TERM)

BATS IN THE BELFRY is a double def.

To have or be BITB is to be crazy, and I suppose they would be a problem for the parish council, if they prevented them from ringing the bells.

Incidentally, BATS is a neat segue to CLUELESS 561 … come on over and have a go at composing you own clue!

Thanks, everyone.

Never heard those definitions of RUTH and CABLE.

Only time I'd heard of Bats in the Belfry was in the title of a 1940s short cartoon.

Ta

1a. She's a grown-up and excellent learner
ABIGAIL

I get the parse, but who's Abigail?

1d. A boundary put up for deer
AXIS

24d. Bill's master
BEAK

13a. Applause as drink's provided on taps?
HANDCLAP

Parses for the above please

1 She's, she is - just leading to a name, Abigail/


13 H and C, hot and cold (taps used to be lettered/marked) and Lap, drink.

1 D. A six, boundary/score in cricket, with the six going upwards (it's a Down clue) to give Axis, a white-spotted deer.

24 . A beak is a bill, nose etc a nd a beak is a Master, teacher, old slang term.

1d. A + SIX, cricket hit to the boundary, reversed
axis2 /ak'sis/
noun (pl ax'ises)
A white-spotted deer of India

Thanks everyone.
I'd never heard of BEAK or AXIS with these meanings.

The things you learn.
Ta

1a. Wanted a seat?
STOOD

11a. Show diamonds around in this case
DATIVE

Parses for the above please.