Full Skull [BB289]

Shortage of zips (6,7)

Well-secured restaurant (4,4)

turkey organ (4,4)

Bomb comb? (Turkey is a bomb, and turkeys have combs, which aren't organs...)

Think I need a safe cafe for a strong mac.

Mauve - nought drought

What about a Kindle shortage? (6,6)

I thought 'shortage of zips' might be 'Drought Noughts' but that doesn't fit the letter count. Hmm...

1.Wide street (Broad Road)
2.Hobart girl (6,6) ???
3.Adult attitude (Mature Nature)
4.Kennel? (Louse House???)
5.Czech pox (6,6) ???
6.Keg tiff (Barrel Quarrel)
7.Vile spirit (Foul Ghoul)
8.Sophia Loren? (Roman Woman)
9.Boxer badge (5,6) ???
10.Piggy climax (Swinish Finish)
11.Kudos trace (8,7) ???
12.Harshest peak (Severest Everest)

Yes DA on safe cafe
Almost on bomb womb
And yes Mr X on Nought Drought

Mauve is your well secured restaurant a safe cafe?

oops too latte

Tassie lassie for Hobart girl

Prague plague for czech box

D'oh. Bomb womb.

Macabre coupling.

Trickier clue for swinish finish: Curly tail?

Harvest substantial basin damper?
(6, 6, 6, 5)

Feel anxious about radioactive deterioration?
(4, 7, 4)

Missing items are possibly

Rover cover
pooch brooch
prestige vestige?

And how about

ship accessory? (3,3)

following your ship theme SB, how about:

Hash boat (6,6)

Does Kindle shortage = hearth dearth?

Get Dipper (6,6)

Nib: Plough enough trough dough

Nib: Fear nuclear wear

Ambiguous sickness (5,4)

Vague ague - nice one, Sam.

^ Vague ague.

Mr X: Become chrome?

SB, was your ship accessory rid aid?

A treble, with no indicators:

MIA Motorola

Tip out ingredient? (4, 5)

Smallest boob? (5, 6)
(Ironically not a false pair. :P)

Sam, my ship accessory is prettier than that but broke convention slightly.

MIA Motorola = One phone gone?

Middle sisters (7,5)

gloomy language (4,6)

red hat (6,5)

cook eggs (7,7)

stun Hansen (5, 6)

DA: MIA Motorola (treble):
one gone - phone?

Nib - pour flour?

Nib:
pour flour
least breast

SB: QE2 FEZ???

Sam:
ragout dugout (for hash boat)?

Yes Mauve :); how about:

Score paint (5, 5)

SB's ship accessory = bow bow
Nib's Tip out ingredient = pour flour

And to Nib's epic plough enough trough dough, we could add lake hamstring complete (5,5,8)

German hat trope (5, 6, 10)

Mauve, working on your red hat and came up with this in the process:

red papers (6, 6)

oh - is it a claret beret?

Correct Sam

Now to your tangential 6,6...

Merlot ballot?

DA, no - but a nice one nonetheless

Sam, working on your score paint and came up with this in the process:
144 paint (5,5)
Different answer?

yes I think so - is your answer gross/gloss though?

That was us. Also struggling with red papers but came up with:
Purple strand (6,6)

Sam- tick!

Gymbunnies - another varient of red papers could be: stone document (6,6)

variant even... and in the meantime:

dance club (6, 6)

Sam:
Garnet cachet?

close Mauve - garnet c..... I'm struggling with your cook eggs. Is it eggs as in provoke/goad?

Gym Bunnies:
Maroon maroon?

Checking the definition Sam and I see I've chosen the less common spelling but it's eggs as in the future offspring of one of nature's creatures

Tinnitus? (5,5)
Fairy's dominant side? (4,4)
Period one? (5,4)
Gestapo transport (4,5)
Basic education site (6,6)
Office fringe benefit (5,4)
Infant girl (4,4)
Cockeyed Bill (4,5)

Setter's fortress (5,6)

That'll be Astle Castle, SK

Correct weight GB.

A quick glance at dg's list yields Baby Gaby.

Mauve - Get dipper (6) isn't "become chrome". Nice example, though.

Aha - gather bather.

Good misdirection, Mr X.

Serious meeting (8,10)

Grievous rendezvous.

(Only because I was toying with this as my next enigma. A good'n.)

These all share a common feature...

Nicer learning facility (6,6)

More blowing and twisting (7,7)

Head paste (4,4)

Metal rope (4,4)

Beautiful resort (4,4)

Is basic education site a kinder finder?

office fringe benefit = clerk perk

Cockeyed Bill = Awry Lawry

Mauve:

kinder kinder
winding winding
lead lead
nice Nice

Can't get head paste though....

Following my above theme, these 6 also share the same features as those 5

snake breath (4,4)

low perch (4,4)

narrow street (5,5)

smelly haberdasher (5,5)

duller figure (6,6)

bird got wet (4,4)

correct on all 4 SB, although it was windier windier :)

snort interject (5, 5)

All the guesses of mine are right

Mauve:

narrow street = close
smelly haberdasher = sewer
duller figure = number

correct on all three, GymBunnies

and btw, congrats on your mention in last weekend's DA

thanks Mauve, we were pretty chuffed with the clue, and of course our shameless self promotion!

I'm stuck on your others.

some clues:

type of bird

snake is a verb

perch is of the wet variety

paste is of the edible variety (maybe eaten in a cafe)

Snake breath = wind?

low perch = BASS BASS

bird got wet = DOVE DOVE

head paste = PATE PATE

yes to all four (of course)

Merry Xmas all