Parsing 8 Down

[Theophylact]

I intuit "blokes" for "Men in magazine mostly lay hands on trousers" but I can't make sense of it. Help?

[fiction-factory]

OK in BLES(S)?

[Captain2]

see here

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Crosswords/Question1640139.html

[Mamyalynne]

OK (Magazine) in Bles(s) lay hands on.

[-Talbot-]

I can't help (I thought you were saying it is raining)

[fiction-factory]

OK magazine
Bless someone by laying hands on them - religious rite

[Mamyalynne]

As an add on - 'trousers' in used here as a containment indicator.

[Jackdaw33]

Never come across 'trousers' as indicating a concealed word before but I rather like it.

[Mamyalynne]

Yes, it's a good one.

[goodgoalie]

On that subject Jack, here's a good one from a while back (Telegraph, I think):
One espousing leather trousers (6)

[Mamyalynne]

It was the Telegraph.

[-Talbot-]

Am I the only one thinking it was raining then?

[Mamyalynne]

Have you a tile loose?

[Baldric]

You're not alone Bill, it is raining here :o(

[Jackdaw33]

Is it single?

[Mamyalynne]

It is.

[-Talbot-]

Baldric
You're not alone Bill, it is raining here :o(


Parsing 8 Down is it, Ben?

[Mamyalynne]

As we are prone to say - it'd look odd parsing 8 up.

[Jackdaw33]

Just realised the significance of Parsing 8 down. Slow on the uptake tonight.

[Baldric]

Certainly is parsing it down Bill :-)

[Theophylact]

Yeah, "trousers" as a containment is new to me. (Also, as an American, OK magazine is new to me.)