Crossword. Help!

[OwlHoot]

Ruin tip of plant that's placed in the ground

spoil ?

buries ?

tip of plant = "bud"

ruin it by ditching the d = "bu"

place in ground = "bury"



God, I hate quiz crosswords

edit: Oh flip, I just noticed that word has only 5 letters. OK, um, er, "berry" perhaps?

[NickFitz]

edit: Oh flip, I just noticed that word has only 5 letters. OK, um, er, "berry" perhaps?

Soon you'll notice that EO answered it twelve minutes earlier

[dang65]

No heart for carnal beast (4) ???L

I'm not particularly confident about this, but another word for carnal could be "sensual" and if you take the heart (centre bit) out of that then you get "seal". Which is a kind of beast. Perhaps.

[NotAllThere]

I'm well impressed. I think it would be Porn if it was the private eye crossword, but in this instance (the Listener), Pulp seems correct. ( I should have got that one. )

I'll check when I get home how it all fits together.

Thanks!

[OwlHoot]

Soon you'll notice that EO answered it twelve minutes earlier

I did notice that, but he gave no explanation and it didn't look at all plausible (read: I couldn't figure out an explanation).

At least my answer fits the clue perfectly, even it does have slightly the wrong number of letters.

[EternalOptimist]

I did notice that, but he gave no explanation and it didn't look at all plausible (read: I couldn't figure out an explanation).

At least my answer fits the clue perfectly, even it does have slightly the wrong number of letters.

ah sorry

Ruin tip of plant that's placed in the ground


tip of plant = p
ground = soil
tip of plant placed in ground = s p oil
ruin = spoil

[Zippy]

I'm not particularly confident about this, but another word for carnal could be "sensual" and if you take the heart (centre bit) out of that then you get "seal". Which is a kind of beast. Perhaps.

I think you are right with seal but take the heart out of sexual.

[EternalOptimist]

No heart for carnal beast

Bull

carnal beast = sexual animal
bull = uncastrated male of many species
heart = heart of a bull
no = no waayy, bull


ok its a stretch

[Punter]

Strings up southern woman (4) ???S

SEWS
Strings = sews
up = reverse of initials SW

[NotAllThere]

It was lass.

S for southern
SAL for las
up for LAS S
Lasso = strings up. Leave out the O.

I rested upset palms (4) IT-S

appears to be ITAS
I = I
Rested = SAT - upset = TAS
But palms? (or palm)