Crossword Help Forum
Forum Rules

I don't usually have many problems with a Mudd offering but can barely get started. These would help
5d Elected, a Conservative minister likely to be eviscerated wrongly (12) No letters [Doesn't bode well when you have to look up what eviscerated means!]
11d Double trouble around people almost despairing over Greek capital
(12) No letters
18a Amid awful dread, European queen ending in ecstasy -happy occasion (3-6 ,3) I want it to be red-letter day. Red and da coming from dread and y being the end of ecstasy but I don't think there is a Queen called Letter.
21a 100cm OK to be cut off (10) No letters

18, the European is a Lett, from Latvia, with ER for queen.

18a red letter day
anagram - dread
European - Lett (Latvian)
queen - ER
y (end of ecstasy

Tricky!

18 LETT is the European (from Latvia, I think), ER is the Queen

A Lett is European from Latvia + ER for quen so red letter day looks kosher?

5 IN A C CURATE? Don't see where the eviscerated fits

5 In (elected) a C(onservative) curate (minister) l(ikel)y
21a Impassable - 1 m(etre) passable (ok)

11d Doppelgänger (double) - Danger (trouble) around oppel (people, mostly) G (reek)

In - elected _+ c conservative + minister - curate + ly likely disemboweled- inaccurately - wrongly?

Good, scorpiojo - for some reason I had read it as (10)