Float Up High Up!

[satprof]

Alphapuzzle cryptic clue for today.

[mallyh]

hover?

[emmie]

arise ??

[bobbinwales]

H over looks good to me

[JJ109]

Aloft = anagram float

[emmie]

well done

[bobbinwales]

Ok that's better.

[mallyh]

well done x

[satprof]

Congratulations, JJ109. It most certainly is 'aloft' as I've also broken the puzzle the long way round.

To help find where 'aloft' fits, the letter L occurs 11 times today, which is more than E, with only 8 occurrences.

[davebro]

I thought "aloft" but "hover" fits the parsing better IMV as there is no suggestion that it is an anagram whereas H (for high) + OVER (for up) seems to fit.

I did one a few weeks back - maybe the Sunday Express Ultra Alphapuzzle where there was only one "E" in the whole puzzle - quite unusual.

[bobbinwales]

Hover nearly works (alway's want to spell it hovver) but a think the could for that might of been better as float up high above.
Tho a suppose over could be up as in turned over/turned upside down

[Calibax]

^ "up" is a commonly used anagram indicator.

[emmie]

i was looking at that and tried to work it backwards, lol

[mouseymick]

Aloft .. 5,4,21,1,3 and Q is 25