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You know it's time to throw in the towel when you've got every crossing letters to a word but still can't get the answer. Not surprising really, when I put them into a word finder site and got words I've never heard of - orpin, octillion, solidi, propjet, flypitchers.
Time to give up but could you put me out of my misery with one more.
8d Trouble-making sextet (4-1-5)
How is 'half-a-dozen' (assuming that's the answer) trouble-making?

Half a dozen is "A DO" [trouble]

Thank you tatters.

Still struggling to complete this puzzle, even with all the help from this forum!
39a Cut on head with stick, old sailor buckled at the knee (5,6)
I have B????Y ???F?O

Bobby Shafto (gone to sea, a silver buckle on his knee, he'll come back to marry me, bonnie Bobby Shafto)

Bob By Shaft O

Another new one on me!
Thanks malone

Anriard, glad I could help. I heard the song all through my childhood, it's stuck with me!

This had some rather complicated but interesting clues and yet I'm stuck on my final, which looks like it should be plain-sailing but isn't, viz 18ac. I have E-D-R-, Spin surrounding our leading female jockey. Please don't let me go to bed frustrated, thanks.

(Pat) Eddery, jockey
EDDY, spin, around ER, the queen, our leading female.

This is one of my all time least favourte crosswords and I am not even finished yet.

A deceased jockey, Solidi. Loose clues all over the place. Like building a wall with jellies and jam as your buiilding blocks and mortar.