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7 Down is LIFE GUARDS

Keeps is GUARDS and a lot of porridge is LIFE (sentence)

thanks again jazzgirl and Brackendale

18a Madrid

18 Across

The servant is MAID and odd bits of DiRt. Put MAID round DR gives MADRID home of (Spanish) Dons

Thanks once again. So obvious when you know the answer !

Brackendale- why is CHARLES Chuck, please?

I guess the same reason that a derivative of Margaret is Peggy!

If you look in the list of Christian names in the Appendices of Chambers you will see Chuck is listed as a diminutive of Charles.

I am stuck on 40a Egyptian god twice rebuffing an Indian one - that's exceptional (4,4)*A** / *V*S

Rara Avis

Thanks chips