Comments on: Azed No 2086 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/03/azed-no-2086/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 22 May 2013 16:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Norman Hall http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/03/azed-no-2086/#comment-195189 Norman Hall Sun, 03 Jun 2012 08:07:21 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=44902#comment-195189 4dn
Being an entomologist, I appreciated this clue greatly.
The ‘clothes’ in the clue is, of course, what I call a ‘charade indicator’. ‘expert in eating’ clothes ‘Tinea’.
A standard definition + cryptic, disguised as an &lit.
Brilliant.

Norman

]]> By: Pelham Barton http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/03/azed-no-2086/#comment-195183 Pelham Barton Sun, 03 Jun 2012 01:58:45 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=44902#comment-195183 Correction to 1 re 14ac: What Chambers actually says (omitting the pronunciation guide) is greet² (Scot; Spenser greete). The use of a semicolon rather than a comma inside the brackets means that the spelling “greete” is indeed Spenser only and not Scot. I apologise for my mistake but am willing to forgive Azed if he has made the same mistake that I did.

]]> By: Pelham Barton http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/03/azed-no-2086/#comment-195181 Pelham Barton Sat, 02 Jun 2012 23:14:18 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=44902#comment-195181 Thanks Azed for the puzzle and bridgesong for the blog. I agree with your interpretation of 9dn.

14ac: Chambers 2011 gives greete as Scot as well as Spenser so to me there is no cause for complaint here.

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