Sunday Times 4342

[woolfy42]

1a Main part of fingerprint (4)

probably A - - -

4d Grove school? (7)

A - - - - - Y

[dr b]

arch
academy

[woolfy42]

Thanks. Can you explain why?

[dr b]

arch =main as in "arch enemy"; also the lines in your fingerprints are arches and whorls.

4, could be "the groves of academe", or Plato's Academy was set in an olive grove. Either works, I think.

[dr b]

re fingerprints, arches, whorls AND loops, apparently.

[woolfy42]

Thank you so much.