E: 23/04 £100 (xword help needed)

bella165

i dont have any brains as some know

Send your entries to Crossword, Private Eye, 6 Carlisle Street, London W1D 3BN or via email to [EMAIL="crossword@private-eye.co.uk"]crossword@private-eye.co.uk[/EMAIL]
Across
1 Publicity associated with US Secretary of State's loan (7)
5 City's flush, hoarding a subprime, initially large amount of money (7)
9 Clinton with Elton? They talk gibberish (4,3,3)
11 Creative gets Labour, say, to ditch its leader (4)
12 Look around, PM's almost taking two different directions (6)
13 Show organ lit up by headlights? (4-3)
14 Joined by devotees of blow job equipment and clobber (3,4)
15 Starts to censor young Conservatives lamming into Cameron, repeatedly (6)
17 Clegg's just started breaking rules, possibly symptom of stress? (6)
19 Scrotum clot? (7)
21 Self-assertive Archer's goal his undoing (7)
23 Move to resume parliamentary place before start of election (6)
25 !!!!! Bang requires "love" input! (4)
26 Mirror will reveal whom you most fancy suffering from this (10)
27/28/7 As Cyclops pants on getting Ken embroiled with a member (3-4,7,5)

Down
2 Comparatively alcohol-free club? Not very (5)
3 Tax-free amount? Short answer: Cowell arranged about a million finally (9)
4 Not much of a political party to stand in front of fancy lace screen (7)
6 Nuts one lost from nautical accident (7)
7 See 27ac. 8 A place for washing after Cameron's last pair at serious risk (2,3,4)
10 No minister, speedy Johnson, wearing bra – check out (11)
14 Out-and-out satisfied Gordon, Right having become Left (4-5)
16 Conservative ballsed up EU's cause according to ex-President (9)
18 Economics, say, since getting wrecked with EC involvement (7)
20 Eager type from bank grabbing boob (7)
22 An auditor's genital areas oversight? (5)
24 Crap about second drug sample (5)

IdontMind

11 across is... arty

deb1home

9 across - Bill and Ben

Yuki60

Here you go! Think they're all right but check em anyway in case you think different!


1 across - advance
5 across - Glasgow
9 across - Bill and Ben
11 across - Arty
12 across - Browse
13 across - Cats Eye
14 across - Fanclub
15 across - cyclic
17 across - ulcers
19 across - nutcase
21 across - Bulllish
23 across - resite
25 across - poop
26 across - narcissism
27 across - oneeyed
28 across - trouser

2 down - Drier
3 down - Allowance
4 down - Conceal
6 down - Lunatic
7 down - Snake
8 down - ontheline
10 down - Backbencher
14 down - Fullblown
16 down - Ceausescu
18 down - Science
20 down - Terrier
22 down - Lapse
24 down - Taste

RaymondTerrific

Do we need to quote an issue number to enter this?

Yuki60

I put Private Eye Crossword 415 as the subject.

Bellers_2

I can't quite believe this thread! There is nothing more distracting than being stuck on just one or two crossword clues, but Bella165 seemed to be asking for help with every single clue. Then, to make it worse Yuki60 gave all the answers. What a Spoiler!

The Eye crossword is one of the harder <cough> ones out there, and by providing all the answers before the competition close you have ruined the skill element, removed the kudos of completing it, and quite possibly sent the number of entrants rocketing, so diminishing the chances of my ever seeing my name printed in the Eye; I will now have to misbehave whilst in public office, instead.

The Eye aren't trying to screw money out of you or sell on your personal info like some greedy high street retail chain. Why treat them and their readership this way?
Despite the inconvenience, I sincerely hope that the crossword is removed from the Private Eye website so only purchasers of the esteemed organ can enter.

MoneySavingExpert has just become MoneyGrubbingExpert.

mp3duck

sorry you feel that way Bellers!
The Competitions thread on MSE is all about sharing the answers to various competitions.

Yuki60

Bellers wrote: »

I can't quite believe this thread! There is nothing more distracting than being stuck on just one or two crossword clues, but Bella165 seemed to be asking for help with every single clue. Then, to make it worse Yuki60 gave all the answers. What a Spoiler!

The Eye crossword is one of the harder <cough> ones out there, and by providing all the answers before the competition close you have ruined the skill element, removed the kudos of completing it, and quite possibly sent the number of entrants rocketing, so diminishing the chances of my ever seeing my name printed in the Eye; I will now have to misbehave whilst in public office, instead.

The Eye aren't trying to screw money out of you or sell on your personal info like some greedy high street retail chain. Why treat them and their readership this way?
Despite the inconvenience, I sincerely hope that the crossword is removed from the Private Eye website so only purchasers of the esteemed organ can enter.

MoneySavingExpert has just become MoneyGrubbingExpert.

People give answers on here hun. I see you've just joined and have 0 posts so have obviously joined simply to rant. I do purchase Private Eye and am very sorry i managed to get all the answers and you didn't! There's no need to come on here though and have a go at people. I'll continue to help with answers if i can as others have helped me on this forum. Are you honestly saying that you won't take the two answers you needed from my list and use them? Really?