![]() So, don't race straight in – help out your fellow solvers piece by piece and let's see what "No see here, it's a sort of church with a chapter" ought to be suggesting. Wild speculation is as welcome as precision.Įxplanations of any out-of-date abbreviations, people or vocabulary very welcome.Īlternate answers that fit the definition and wordplay very welcome, even if obviously inaccurate (hat-tip to JollySwagman, Middlebro and MicheDoherty on this count last week. No leaping ahead to the other clues in the story. One piece of wordplay or suggested definition at a time. But having discovered that one of the clues in his crossword puzzle was … 'No see here, it's a sort of church with a chapter', both beyond the powers of even a Keggs to solve, cast the beastly thing from him and prepared for further conversation.īeyond even Keggs the butler, perhaps, but surely not beyond the readers of Guardian Crossword Blog? Rules Well content with this happy ending to an episode which had at the outset threatened to be a bit sticky, Lord Uffenham turned to his Times. We suggest that responses be about 300 words but there is no word minimum required. (It was, of course.) Having offered lunch at "Barribault's hotel, that haunt of Texan millionaires and visiting Maharajahs", our hero settles back: Shortened words, for short Crossword Clue Answers, Crossword Solver. Next up then is a clue which Lord Uffenham turns to after successfully diverting an awkward conversation with his niece about whether it was he who painted a moustache on a sculpture by the artist she believes herself in love with. Kean was recently portrayed himself at the Apollo theatre by Antony Sher, and as Iammagoo noted, "ll actors in the Times Crossword were once either (Henry Beerbohm) TREE or (Edmund) KEAN". In the early 19th century, the actor Edmund Kean swept away years of tradition with a terrifying degree of emotional realism, verging on incoherence (Coleridge remarked that watching him act was like seeing Shakespeare "illuminated by flashes of lightning" – this was not necessarily meant as a compliment). Try to find some letters, so you can find your solution more easily. Reader wolverine001 reminded us that in the old money, D indicated a penny, and that we should remove that letter from "Naked", kindly leaving Iammagoo to complete the wordplay, anagramming NAKE for the celebrated regency actor Edmund KEAN, whose legacy is described thus by Simon Callow in these pages: We have found 2 Answer (s) for the Clue Least satisfactory. ![]() VOLUME - Two definitions.We have a satisfactory answer now for "So the subordinate professional on trial gets wages in advance not without demur" and for last week's challenge, "Naked without a penny has the actor become". ![]() SCRAPE - The first letter of ( initially) Experienced comes after SCRAP (exchange of blows?) Predicament initially experienced after exchange of blows? (6) Little bird, one moving around Latvian capital (10)īUDGERIGAR - BUDGER (one moving) around RIGA (Latvian capital) For clarity, I omit most link words and some juxtaposition indicators. In the explanations, quoted indicators are in italics and I’ve capitalised and emboldened letters which appear in the ANSWER. Thanks Orpheus!ĭefinitions are underlined in the clues below. As usual I’m struggling to nominate a COD, but I’ll go with 16a. It took longer for me to get a foothold in the NE than elsewhere, but once I did the rest followed without undue delay. With a few family members appearing in clues and answers, including the rather naughty 5d, perhaps I should have subtitled this post A Family Affair. ![]()
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