Yesterday’s solutions

CIRCLEGRAM:

The letter represented by the question mark is L. Bentley, Bristol, McLaren, all British car manufacturers.

CLOCKWORD:

1 Margin, 2 Oilman, 3 Napkin, 4 Tocsin, 5 Yeomen, 6 Poison, 7 Austin, 8 Notion, 9 Eleven, 10 Saloon, 11 Airmen, 12 Radian.

CELEBRITY: Monty Panesar.

MINDBENDERS:

A: 45 had tea without milk.

B: Bobby had £7.13 (84 coins).

CHESS:

1. Rh3+ Kg7 2. Bh6+ K moves to Kh8 3. Bxf8 mate.

The Brain Teaser ACROSS

1. Seems surprised you leave fifty eggs that are cracked (7)

5. Charles, the devil! (7)

9. That's the stuff, girl! (5)

10. A nipper up a tree? (4-5)

11. Rode back to take it in to the boss (6)

12. Create a draught? (8)

14. Write “Chase has lost money”(5)

15. Makes an impression when one enters (9)

18. Keeps trying to persuade one? (7,2)

20. It's like the king to knock back a drink! (5)

22. And I travel, in the main, out by ship (8)

24. As it runs right back into the passage (6)

26. A red-head (9)

27. I side with his change of nationality (5)

28. Among the others in Germany, I having most to lose (7)

29. Soft and tender you make out, or would have us believe (7)

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Go and get dad a drink (6-3)

A fellow-man, or a plant (7)

Assume the solitary types outside are townies (9)

Let go the bag (4)

A fly in the whisky, perhaps; it's in a bottle (7,3)

Figure the fellow out as a leader in his field (5)

Cost an indeterminate number of coins, say (7)

Before the girl is to make a come-back on the screen (5)

A receiver – of glassware (7,3)

Stone is, having got so drunk, fine again (9) Barked, as the cat did when angry! (9) Complete with the weird mice that are indigenous (7)

It's hard to get it within range, anyhow (7) Where you see a dog to catch (5)

She has taken away the street list one was holding (5)

To catch up will take the usual time (4)

No. 8,672

SOLUTION TO PUZZLE No. 8671:

ACROSS: 1 Jack the Ripper; 8 Springs; 9 Italics; 11 Chaise; 13 Well-to-do; 15 Nudge; 16 Iron age; 18 Deplete; 19 Parma; 21 Al fresco; 23 Report; 25 Seattle; 26 Traitor; 28 Keep in the dark.

DOWN: 2 Air-raid; 3 Ken; 4 Hash; 5 Raise money; 6 Pearl; 7 Epitome; 8 Secondclass; 10 Slow starter; 12 Sweep; 14 Firescreen; 17 Apple; 18 Deflate; 20 Rooster; 22 Eat up; 24 Itch; 27 And.