Sunday Telegraph General Knowledge (Gk) 1213 Sunday February 21St 2016

[jeremykayp]

Stuck on 3! 4d Natural extension of trancendental meditation (5,,6). Y?G?C, ?L?I?? 21a Small island artificially enlarged and fortified (7). C?A?N?? 23a. Surrounded with a lady's elastic corset, E.g. (6) E?G?R? Thanks for any help.

[Svejk]

yogic flying

[scorpiojo]

Yogic flying

[Svejk]

23. engird?

[scorpiojo]

23 Engirt

[jellybun]

4dn Yogic flying
21ac Crannog
23ac Engird

[scorpiojo]

Crannog

[LickeyBanker]

I have seen the solution to (7) across Surrounded with a lady's elastic corset, e.g. (here and elsewhere) given as ENGIRD but surely the past form ENGIRT is required by the wording of the clue?

[dannyk13]

It's the Telegraph. SNAFU

[LickeyBanker]

My point is that ENGIRT can be entered in the grid rather than ENGIRD which has been offered as a solution, the final letter is an otherwise unclued light.

[Mamyalynne]

Correct answer was given above by Scorpio.

[dannyk13]

As I said typical Telegraph.

[Mamyalynne]

Not at all , if the clue is surrounded then it is asking for the past tense.


http://www.englishtenses.com/verb/engird

[dannyk13]

Sorry to contradict you Lynne but Engird is the word accepted as correct.

[Mamyalynne]

Well they need educating then.

[dannyk13]

See my earlier posts Lynne 13.35 & 13.44

[LickeyBanker]

Thanks, Mamyalynne. Sorry to harp on dannyk13, but on this occasion the Telegraph is not at fault, the incorrect solution (ENGIRD) was suggested a couple of times.

[dannyk13]

The Telegraph must be at fault as it accepted Engird as correct.

[Mamyalynne]

Lickey, what Danny is saying is that they accepted the wrong answer as correct in the online submission - glad I don't pay money for it or they'd be getting strong words from me if not cross ones.

[dannyk13]

Lynne, I have on occasion used strong words in e-mails but it is water off a ducks back as far as the Telegraph is concerned.

[Mamyalynne]

Oh well.