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Wally - if I`m allowed to tell you, 12 ac is not English.

Wally. 12a is an anagram of more polite plus l from lost. Definition is painting illusion. I had to google it after I'd worked out the first word.

Help please. I cannot work out 8d.I'm assuming that it is
an anagram of molesappealing, and that the second word
is lamp.Clue is light and adjustable model's appealing.
10. 4.

Anglepoise lamp?

Wow, thanks mattrom. I even own one ! What an idiot.

How about 4d,7 letters. The only one I am really sure of
is the sixth, which is m.

Thanks Cantersue. I couldn't get even the first word, but a few moments on Wikipedia gave it me when I knew what I was looking for. Your clue was really helpful. - But a foreign word (after brexit) is cheating!

Doris
4d def. is "happy to receive".
Boy's name (3 letters) reversed + word for "approach" or "arrive"

Wally, Lawrence Llewellan-Bowen was alway on about these. It's when an image is created to create an optical illusion. It means 'a trick of the eye'

Thanks jazzgirl, I had considered that but didn't like the c.
Swift rethink, and have now finished. Back to the tennis