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sammy

23rd November 2010, 11:17
This is from an old Times.

Boy is right to keep up (4).

N - - -

I've been trying boys' names, and boys' names with an R, e.g. Norm, Ned+R, but I don't get it.
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sudokulover

23rd November 2010, 11:30
Neil - lien is a right
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djawhufc

23rd November 2010, 11:30
neil

lien (legal right) backwards
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sammy

23rd November 2010, 11:35
Thank you both. I actually thought of Neil and lien but not of lien meaning a right and was looking for something that meant "to keep up"!
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mark

23rd November 2010, 11:36
This was presumably a down clue? Hence the reference to up
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sammy

23rd November 2010, 17:31
And here's another down clue:

So friendly with crowds everywhere(6).

- S - - - -
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trevor74

23rd November 2010, 19:42
Think that one is "aswarm", Sammy.
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sammy

23rd November 2010, 19:56
Excellent! Thank you, trevor74.
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sammy

24th November 2010, 13:27
Knowing good fortune comes about through deadly craft (6,4).

- L - I - G / - - - R

It looks to me like FLYING something. FLY = KNOWING, perhaps, but as for the rest...
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trevor

24th November 2010, 17:30
flying wing?
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