![]() ![]() My best guess is that it is traditional to keep underwear in the bottom drawer, so if it were in the top drawer it would be in the wrong place. (It’s the type known as ‘romaine’ in North America.)īest quality trousseau in exactly the wrong place here? (3,6)Īnother one where the parsing is non-obvious, at least to me. INDIGO – Anagram of I (one) + DOING.įor the non-UK solvers, it’s worth remembering that COS is a type of lettuce. The second refers to the grading system in judo, and possibly other martial arts. The first definition refers to Desperate Dan, a cartoon character in The Dandy, a comic I remember well from my childhood. On further thought, I came up with ‘Have you any sugar?’ and ‘Have you some sugar?’ as an example for the first, but I’m still struggling for an example phrase where ‘how’ can be replaced by ‘method’, without changing anything else.ĭesperate man’s grading in Oriental sport (3) Both the definitions for ‘some’ and ‘method’ seemed a bit of a stretch when I first filled this in, but I had the H and the W of HOW, so in it went. Some ancient method showing no particular care (3,3,3)ĪNY OLD HOW – ANY (some) + OLD (ancient) + HOW (method). REPROOF – RE (about) + PROOF (mathematical demonstration). LUNGE – N (name) in LUGE (Olympic event).Ĭensure about mathematical demonstration (7) Thrust forward name for inclusion in Olympic event (5) Teazel taking the ‘I’ for ‘1’ convention to the next logical step. London perhaps first for the wealthy investor (10)ĬAPITALIST – CAPITAL (London, perhaps) + IST (first). ![]()
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