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Cannot quite grasp the last one! Any help gratefully received
7 (d) Spit in Skye Y- s -

YESK - it's an anagram of Skye

I must get a new dictionary!

How on earth did you work that out Brackendale?

I guessed it was an anagram and there are only two options if the given letters are correct - YESK or YKES. The first one seemed to be more likely so I looked it up in Chambers Dictionary and there it was as YEX (alternative to YESK) meaning to hiccup, belch or spit. It is apparently Scottish dialect - I always think that crosswords would be easier if one had been brought up in Scotland!(which I wasn't)

You must ask Father Christmas to bring you a nice new Chambers Dictionary.

Sorry, Wendy. I meant to say that the only two options were YESK and YKSE!

many thanks Brackendale. I would never have got that one

6d Fault in geology or 9 (5)
9 being cricket! I have t?r?w throw? but why

throw - in geology the distance a fault moves vertically, in cricket an illegal bowling action?