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Hi Ginger, sorry I didn't get back to you yesterday. I think showercaps is just as valid as any of the others we have come up with, I am just not convinced that any of them are right. Maybe it's just me. I have trouble with relating any of the answers up to date to the part of the clue with says, from two extremes. It could be that I'm trying to complicate things too much, but Rainbow always have complete logic in their answers as you will have seen from all the ones you have answered.

Hi Campanilla, with regard to question 94, I took the cap part to relate to the polar caps two extremes, north and south. J.It will be interesting to see what the answer actually is!!

Me again, I have been surfing around and Souwesters seems to be the favourite answer, 2 extremes, south and west - which are William Shakespeares initials.

Hi Ginger,

As JimB, my main thinking man, appears to have given up the ghost on No. 94, I'll tell you what I think the answer is and why. At no time does the clue specifically mention hats, caps or the like, it only says headgear. And you know, God knows I've said it enough times, that I have a problem with "extremes" regarding south/west etc. Well, I think the answer is "sideboards". Items of headgear? One on each side of the face? There actually is a Shakespeare sideboard which was carved by a Victorian woodcarver called Gerrard Robinson who was famous in that era for carving sideboards etc. He carved the most famous sideboard in the world, the Chevy Chase sideboard among others. The Shakespeare sideboard has a carving of Willy at the top, you'll find it on Google if you look for it. There actually is a Shakespeare sideboard in the Shipley Art Museum, Gerrard Robinson was fropm Newcastle-on-Tyne. Anyway, that's my answer and now I'll get back to the dreaded No. 19.

I forgot to mention that sideboards are mentioned a lot in Shakespeares plays, and they are items from that time, in fact he left his eldest one in his will......

........sorry, should have read "eldest daughter".......

From my interpretation of the clue I came up with PORRINGER

Hello
May I join in ?
If it's any help to anyone I have an answer for 94 which comes from the "extremes " of "two".Two being the Q number 2 in the Quiz .It's a dish and also, according to my Chambers Dictionary a headress shaped like a dish (Shakespeare).Look at the first three letters of Q 2 and the last word and put them together .
I am still stuck on two. Namely No 67 and the infernal No 19!
Am thinking Grates for 64 but I can't define it from the clue .

How did you get that?

Hi Top0sy,

Well done, I think you have it for 94. I've been back and forwards from that clue for ages, but couldn't fit anything together, which is how I went for the other "extreme". I couldn't reconcile "sou'wersters" any which way I looked at it.

You're right for 67. "In + grates" makes ingrates, unappreciatvie people.