Bingo.Because in your second version there wouldn't be any confirmation of your answer. Generally in a cryptic crossword you know when you have the right answer.Try the Saturday Telegraph crossword - its the easiest of the broadsheets I reckon and the only one I regularly finish. The Times is too hard for me and the Guardian is just weird (and so is the crossword....). You don't have to read the rest of the paper if you don't want to.
Try the Saturday Telegraph crossword - its the easiest of the broadsheets I reckon and the only one I regularly finish. The Times is too hard for me.
Oriental revolutionary leaves greedy man drunkenly threadbare. 5
Quote from: tlr on February 16, 2011, 01:33:23 pmOriental revolutionary leaves greedy man drunkenly threadbare. 5MANGYCan I get this explained please? Is reed an oriental revolutionary? seems unlikey, esp as its basically undoing what N@W had just done.
Chris:Pair calls on mangy scallywag (11)RAPSCALLIONAnagram of "pair calls on", indicated by mangy, meaning scallywagDeranged rapscallion cuts off head (7)CRANIALrapscallion without (off) lops (cuts) = racalin - anagram (deranged) gives cranial, meaning headhope this helps.
You have the wrong meaning of instrument, I could have used the word contraption instead.Or for a different clue with the same solution:Contraption goes at the speed of sound to Northumberland. (7)
I swallow broken necklace instrument. (7)