Phoenix magazine Dec 16th

vinpaul

Any help on a few clues
1dn: Has airs and graces with most of Their Graces being there at the end (8) s?o?b??? Could it be SNOWBALL?
12ac: Sired, for example, in a sports club of sorts.(5) ??G?T
Looks like BEGOT
16ac: Old wood-spirits involved when machinery is working (5) ??A?U
14dn: Would illegal financial inducement be out to tease one (3) R?B
Must be RIB but can't see the link, or is it ROB
Thanks for any offers:o:o

Havermeyer

12ac is BEGOT, I reckon.

14dn could be rib. To rib can be used to mean tease.

maryb26

snobbish (Their Graces = bishops + snob) and begat (eg for example and bat)
cannot work out 33A Chap who has done bad back. _ E _N _ S
and 16A Old wood spirits involved in cock up

maryb26

The illegal financial inducement is a bribe be out = remove be and you are left with rib = tease

namenotavailablE

12 Ac: BEGAT => 'eg' (for example) is in BAT (a sports club)
16 Ac: need to confirm the text of the clue- is the machinery working or NOT working? If the latter, the answer is probably SNAFU => faun is a mythological forest spirit and fauns (multiple wood spirits) is an anagram of snafu

PS- maryB gives a different clue which ties in with SNAFU

33 Ac: Dennis=> in reverse order, this gives sinned (done bad)

maryb26

Thanks for that . Happy Christmas Mr Namenotavailable.

brinock1980

whats 28 ac Rendered footless?

please!

namenotavailablE

You'll have to tell us how many letters & words there are in the answer first!

brinock1980

sorry yeah

9 letters

p_a_t e_ _ _

namenotavailablE

Plastered

brinock1980

Yeah had thought of plastered but did'nt really see the logic behind it.Ah sure ill stick it down anyway thanks

namenotavailablE

Plastered (as in a wall that is plastered) = rendered.
Also, plastered (colloquially) means legless/ footless