Rte Guide 38

[Shenco]

5D. Wouldn't it make an apt anthem for Munster rugby? (9)
? A ? R ? S ? E ?

[fiction-factory]

seen as garryowen

[fiction-factory]

An irish song and a rugby term

[Tilly2]

I thought Garry Owen was a Welsh rugby player:-)

[Shenco]

Ah very good fiction factory.
So 13a ...Holy Moses! What's that on your head? (4) ? A ? ?.
Is not hats as seen in clue.?

[fiction-factory]

It's an up and under.
But I have just realised it is also the name of a rugby team in Limerick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garryowen_Football_Club
It's in the Munster union whatever that means
Gary Owen was a footballer in the 1970s/1980s

[fiction-factory]

No- halo

[Tilly2]

Halo

[Tilly2]

I knew, in the back of my mind that Gary Owen was a person. I just thought he was Welsh.

[Shenco]

Super, thank you all.

[choux]

Well, that was an inventive way of getting around the swear filter - was it not?!

[Tilly2]

I don't understand that response, Choux.

[Mamyalynne]

I think it's clear Shenco had a letter wrong rather than trying to type a rude word but it does look comical.

[Tilly2]

Oh! Got it now! :-)

[Mamyalynne]

Instead of

?A?R?S?E?

?A?R?O?E?

[Tilly2]

Cabriolet!

[Mamyalynne]

Can you parse that for me.

[Tilly2]

Errrr, No. :-(

[Mamyalynne]

We'll stick with Garryowen then.

[Shenco]

I am completely innocent of said charge your honour :-)
Now then, where's my HALO.
In fact that was the 'o' i should have had (in halO ) instead of the 'S' in HATS which was contained in the clue :-( Ah well. Btw, I hadn't come accross the word 'parse' before, the dictionary says 'analyze', Is it used in AB to mean 'explain' ?

[Mamyalynne]

Just a fancy way of saying 'how a clue works'.

Parse

resolve (a sentence) into its component parts and describe their syntactic roles.