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4dn Useless person to end up being ragged in Ayr? (6) iud??e also 25 ac Crane-like bird, cold and asexual (6) ag????

AGAMI C

4 D Duddie - ragged.

Can anybody recommend a Scottish dictionary ?

Thank you both

last one - 23 ac A maiden given attention, devout type no longer punished (7) ?mey?st

The "y" looks wrong

@eccles45. Here is one. http://www.scots-online.org/dictionary/ There is a better one, but my link is on a different PC. You will probably find it using Google anyway. It has a Tam o Shanter icon when you save it to your desktop. IMHO there are too many (uninteresting) Scottish references in Mephisto, and I also think it has been 'dumbed down' over the last few years. A Dean Meyer ST Puzzle is often more challenging. He is looking like a successor to the late great monkey puzzler (R.I.P) in 'The Guardian'. ST will be lucky to keep him (or her if it is a pseudonym).

@ ging: the Y comes from 20 down Plant to exhibit when it's not hot in festival (7) I have syringa

@harlequin

Thanks. I too mourned for Araucaria as I did for Bunthorne a few years back. As for Dean Mayer, his blog is to be found here http://anaxcrosswords.wordpress.com/

For info about Dean and other setters try http://bestforpuzzles.com/people/index.html