Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[Duncan Gardner]

Earth calling Erdelyi- can we have another letter or two please?

[ad hoc]

_ _ _ _ F _ _ G

[Duncan Gardner]

Still stumped alas...

[Guy Profumo]

Erdelyi?

[Duncan Gardner]

Transylvania in Magyar. Also Tommy Ramone's real name

[Granthamian]

How mobile one is held in saddle bag I leapfrog (5)

[Duncan Gardner]

Agile, flexible Varsovians (5)

[seand]

Celtic boss eviscerates Legia Warsaw, with Europa League lost (7)

[ad hoc]

Transylvania in Magyar. Also Tommy Ramone's real name

Technically Erdely is the Hungarian word for Transylvania, Erdelyi means "from Transylvania"

[Duncan Gardner]

Thanks AH. Imagine if the Damned's singer had stood in temporarily for Joey Ramone. You'd have had Tommy and Dave (transyl)Vanian in the same line up

[irony towers]

Peter Lawwell discontented with costly road to take Celtic ultimately to summit in England (7,4)

[irony towers]

_ _ _ F _ _ _ / _ _ K _

[ad hoc]

Vehemently dislike tract around Scafell Pike (4,8)

[Duncan Gardner]

Scafell Pike under rainy skies leads to Manchester renaissance (5)

Bah

[ad hoc]

PS why? I can see pike, and the c, but the safell part?

[Duncan Gardner]

Hang frame around Lake District (9)

[irony towers]

Peter Lawwell discontented with costly road to take Celtic ultimately to summit in England (7,4)

A peter is a slang term for a SAFE

Lawwell discontented, ie having its content removed, gives LL

[ad hoc]

A peter is a slang term for a safe

Really? Never heard that before.

[Duncan Gardner]

Thanks IT. I would never have got that- neat but the slang too obscure/ archaic?

[ad hoc]

Nine go mad (with dexterity... and two points) in Fermanagh (11)

[irony towers]

Peter = safe has a respectable pedigree in crossword-ese, I'd have thought. Then again, I've never seen 'etui' used anywhere other than in a grid.

[Duncan Gardner]

In Enniskillen, introduced by Ulyanov (5)

Ps IT's 'peter' reference is archaic because even gnarled veterans (AH and self) have long forgotten it?

[ad hoc]

I've not forgotten it. Genuinely never heard it (or encountered it in a crossword)

[Duncan Gardner]

Sorry- I was stressing that Peter is of its time (rather than that AH is amnesiac or IT geriatric)

[ad hoc]

Sam Lenin - Revolutionary and assistant referee (8)