Radio Times Prize Crossword 19 Tuesday May 1st 2012

[filbertfox11]

22A. Open to maketh sharp? (6). H?N???

[MarkRae]

To maketh? Does it really say that...?

[filbertfox11]

Thanks for reply Mark Rae. Yes it does. 22a. Open to maketh sharp? (6). H?N???. I wonder if the answer is HONEST - Hones is tho sharpen but the "T" at the end puzzles me.

[MarkRae]

Weird. Obviously, "to maketh" isn't correct English, maketh simply being the mediaeval form of the third person singular of the verb "to make", e.g. "She maketh my day".

[filbertfox11]

Agreed! Very weird. I still think it is Honest (i.e. Open) and I need the last letter to be a T to make sense of the Wordfinder answer which I think is Spitting Image. So is the open to referring to the first letter of "TO". and "Hones" is maketh sharp. I remain puzzled!

[filbertfox11]

Maybe the clue should read Open to to maketh sharp?

[Baldric]

wordfinder is SPITTING IMAGE

[filbertfox11]

Thanks Baldric.

[MarkRae]

> Maybe the clue should read Open to to maketh sharp?

How would that make it grammatical?

[filbertfox11]

It wouldn't. I think I will just answer the clue as honest and chalk up the clue as a bad one or a typesetting error. Thanks for your time and trouble.

[Calibax]

Honest is correct
Hone is to make sharp - I hone, thou HONEST, he hones...

[dannyk13]

Honest

[autolycus]

honest