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[Tom K]

I think messiah could fit if other letters match.

Yeah they just need to alter the questions to fit your answers John :lol:

 

[devonwoody]

Hi. Roger, please tell me I am correct. :wink:

 

[RogerS]

I think messiah could fit if other letters match.

Yeah they just need to alter the questions to fit your answers John :lol:

John..I refer to the Right Honorable Tommo's reply

Or put it another way, No!

 

[devonwoody]

OK, I give in, what is the solution?

BTW which paper was the crossword in?

 

[RogerS]

John, Steve M has already given you the answer earlier on in his reply together with the explanation. But here it is.

Refuse...verb but also noun. That is the key.

Wear = rub

A cleric could be vicar, rev, reverend, deacon etc but here I'm after Bishop.

Work is often referred to in crosswords as OP. So losing work means removing the OP from Bishop...leaving Bish

Stick Rub in front and you get Rubbish = refuse.

Which crossword? All my own work, I'm afraid

 

[Smudger]

My head hurts.

 

[devonwoody]

Refuse could be a mess
and a cleric to some could be a messiah.

Seven letter word ending in h.

But you are the umpire.

 

[RogerS]

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[Steve Maskery]

OK, here's some from last Sunday Times Christmas Crossword. I've done the rest, but these stump me. Ignorance on display.

49a. He'll try to ring new English decoration supplier (5,4)

53a. Twelve time table? ( 8 )
I thought this was POSTPONE, but I already have c??o?d?(e). Not sure of the E.

65a. Mutton with French main cereal (5)
E?M?R. MER is French for Sea, so that is French main, but I have no idea where Mutton or Cereal feature.

60a. Form a queue, maybe (5)
P?A?T. I keep thinking PLANT, but apart from planting things in a row, I don't get it.

69a. It's balm to downright anger (12)
?R?N?Y?L?N?E. Not sure about the L, it might be A, depending on whether 57D is ATONAL or STANZA.

38d. Girl covers setup fee. (7)
A?N???S. The obvious answer is ANNETES, but what sort of a word is that?

45d Be wrong to throw out this drink (5)
????R?. No idea.

Any help etc, etc.
Stupid Steve.

 

[CHJ]

...
60a. Form a queue, maybe (5)
P?A?T. I keep thinking PLANT, but apart from planting things in a row, I don't get it.

......

PLAIT = Queue (braid of hair )

 

[Steve Maskery]

I didn't know that. Thanks, Chas.
S

 

[CHJ]

65a. Mutton with French main cereal (5)
E?M?R. MER is French for Sea, so that is French main, but I have no idea where Mutton or Cereal feature.

emmer = cereal

 

[Steve Maskery]

OK, got it, but why is EM Mutton?
S

 

[studders]

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That's the first thing that's made me larf out loud in ages.

 

[studders]

sackcloth (7 ) hit the wrong number key. got the wrong matrix



ans: Hessian

Oh ya swine ye, I had that straight away but my letter count was wrong. Grrrrr.

 

[RogerS]

38d Annates - the whole of the first year's profits of a Roman Catholic benefice which were generally given to the papal treasury

 

[Steve Maskery]

!

Never heard of it. But thanks.
S

 

[CHJ]

OK, got it, but why is EM Mutton?
S

printing; a square piece of lead used for spacing, "since `em quad' is hard to distinguish from `en quad', printers sometimes called it a `mutton quad'"

 

[Steve Maskery]

How do you KNOW all this stuff?
Thanks (again).
S