Crossword Help Forum
Forum Rules

Fairly easy this week but a few gaps in NE corner.
7a For some marine life, West Coast city's backward step (6)
I have SA????.
Prob SAL.

step = PAS

Hi Lumen,

7a - 3 letter (2 letter + apostrophe S)"West Coast city's reversed/"backward" + 3 letter "step" (French) - definition is "Marine life" (not sure why "for some" is there, Chambers doesn't show it as dialect word which is usually what that means?

I'm stuck on ...

37a - Europeans shifted along departure flights to the country (6)

GR?S?S - I can't even find a word that fits?

Dialect word ('in the country') for 'flights'/stairs - move the two European abbrevs in a country.

sorry, I'm using 'country' twice - it's a word for 'departure' that has the abbrevs moving.

Move one European along a departure?

Yes, just the first one moves.

Thanks Drxx, that means I've messed up ..

39d - One’s family all but boosted one’s ego (4) I had ?ELF so presumed it was "self" (ego) but after 37a it must begin with C?

No, I gave the wrong spelling to begin with, brendan (see my correction).