D/m Smallest Hardest

[madmac74]

1d) Strike heavily against (Scot) Du?? Thanks

[factor-fiction]

Do we know what the published answer was?

[retrocop]

We'll never know Svejk unless some one gives the actual answer from the Mail?????

[retrocop]

Thats exactly what I have earlier asked for factor-fiction.I would like to see the Mails ACTUAL answer grrrrrrrrr.

[Svejk]

ask aog. he has all the back copies.

[retrocop]

Thanks Svejk.

[vakayu]

Bryand is usually on here daily asking about the Daily Mail maybe you can intercept him later?

[retrocop]

Thanks vakayu.He is a little late today.If only my wife had'nt taken testerday's mail to work with her today I would be out of my misery and maybe eating humble pie by now or NOT??

[vakayu]

There is no disagreement as such retrocop,it is just you are putting forward another suggestion which is not in daily use by scots,we may have to stand corrected,I for one would also like to know the answer.The word dush is completely new to me,so it will be interesting!

[dannyk13]

Apparently the answer published in yesterday's paper was Dush

[factor-fiction]

On the FAO AOG thread Baldric has said it was DUSH

[retrocop]

Thanks Danny.Try persuading every one else.The Scots only dunt but never dush apparently.

[Boredoman]

Well done retrocop, correct as usual!!

[dannyk13]

As a Sassenach it is all Greek to me:-)

[retrocop]

Thanks Boredoman.It was bl***y hard work trying to convince.

[vakayu]

As I thought retrocop we would have to stand up and be corrected,we were hardly "vehement"only saying it was not a word in regular usage. It is similar to Keith's crossword which is often on here with usual Scots words wch the majorityof Scots have never heard of either.Well done.

[Sipowicz]

All dunt and dushted then? ;-)

[vakayu]

:0)

[retrocop]

Thanks vakayu.perhaps I should of said adamant or insistent (as I was) instead of vehement.

[vakayu]

Thanks retrocop and I accept defeat gracefully although I shall still never be using "dush" when I do hit myself hard with something lol.

[retrocop]

Well maggie-bee in her earlier post should have said she dushed her car against a bollard and sustained a dunt.I have it on good authority that Chambers is/was the dictionary of authority used by past/present compilers on the Daily Mail.
The Puzzlemeister in the Mail on Sunday used to give Chambers dictionarys as smaller prizes.That is why I go by their answer when doing the Mail's crossword.I don't have shares in Chambers by the way.Just find it useful.