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Welcome back Nimrod. Sorry to hear they had to have two goes at you. Best wishes for your full recovery.

I seem to be stuck in the top right hand corner. I cannot get `Workings feature key held by queen`, nor can I understand the American city one - my mind goes to the wild west days and cowboys etc for the city but cannot see how the workers are guarded. I am beginning to think I am a thicko too!! Help appreciated.

Hi Mondrian, 3d Anagram of ant (worker)+safe(Guarded surroundings)= US city. 8a I'm trying to think a clue that would make sense! Will get back to you

Here goes! The queen is Ma.....ry Holding a facial feature+A (key).Hope that makes sense. If not I'll try something else. Hope I've not confused you further!

Thank you Karen. It is now so very obvious. Good of you to reply when your children are probably wanting fed! Unless of course they can now feed themselves.

Hi Mondrian,out of habit I refer to my offspring as 'kids', my daughter is at Uni and my son at college! Still do most of the cooking though,got the hubby to feed!

I too refer to my offspring as `kids` though they are well and truly grown up with kids of their own. There should be a word for one`s grown up children!!

Karen/Mondrian thanks for your comments and welcome back to the thread. It is nice to be back in one piece. Possibly, need to check your spellings for 8A??

Karen scrieved:

Here goes! The queen is Ma.....ry Holding a facial feature+A (key).Hope that makes sense. If not I'll try something else. Hope I've not confused you further!

Not that it affects anything else, but I think you'll find that the key is "E".

Thanks John from Arran, the more I looked at it , the more I started to doubt my spelling - the key is E, not A.

Sorry all about my typo,didn't notice my mistake. Hope I did not mislead Mondrian with A instead of E. I am being really thick today. I'll cover myself in sackcoth and ashes.or maybe open the wine. I think open the wine! So sorry.