Comments on: Cyclops 454: Body parts http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/24/cyclops-454-body-parts/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 18 May 2013 22:29:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: jetdoc http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/24/cyclops-454-body-parts/#comment-172643 jetdoc Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:55:23 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35810#comment-172643 Strictly speaking, I think you’re right, Bridgesong. I hadn’t spotted that. Chambers also gives it, more loosely, as ‘lying at length, with the body stretched out; … lying at someone’s mercy; reduced to helplessness; completely exhausted’.

]]> By: bridgesong http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/24/cyclops-454-body-parts/#comment-172641 bridgesong Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:37:44 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35810#comment-172641 Thanks, Jetdoc, for explaining one or two allusions that I hadn’t spotted. Can I raise a query about PROSTATE? Isn’t this an example of the confusion between prostrate, which means lying face down, and supine, which means lying on your back?

]]> By: Bamberger http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/24/cyclops-454-body-parts/#comment-172606 Bamberger Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:42:30 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35810#comment-172606 I also had plastery until I couldn’t find it in the dictionary-hadn’t encountered psaltery.

Re 2d, when introduced to his new headmaster by his parents as “our son Master ..” , the headmaster said “Don’t worry, we’ll put a stop to that-make him wear boxing gloves at night”.

]]> By: simon http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/24/cyclops-454-body-parts/#comment-172575 simon Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:52:16 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=35810#comment-172575 I had 8 across as Plastery, thinking that you added fibres (pluck) to plaster in the olden days. I now realise I was just a little off the mark with this! However, I too finished this one quite quickly – in a week.

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