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Mephisto2490/ Azed1877

gordonia | 11:27 Wed 21st May 2008 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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Mephisto clues first.
2 across- Hold fast onto cable strained by king fish(11)
??I???????
4 down- Helpfulness is Japanese mistress slicing common fish(12) ?ON?L????N?E
5 down- An old form of cello is all ivory perhaps(8)
?Y??????
11 down- Island races stuffed with eccentric old haunts(11) ???????????

Azed clues.
2 across- A written message ER's left in handbag: simple operatic songs(10) ?A????E?A?
35 across- Ramshackle estate's including little more than a yard marked mosaically(10)
1 down- Old sonata RCA broadcast staccato,presto(12,2 words) ?R??????????
14 down- Useless plant-house ruined organism meiotically affected(7) ???????

Any help would be appreciated.Thank you.

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Tichfield

5d lyra-viol

Tichfield

1d arco saltando

Tichfield

35a Tessellate

gordonia

Question Author

Thanks very much tichfield.

woodstockbit

Mephisto 2A: stickleback (stick + anag of cable + k = king)

GRM

Mephisto

2a - Five letter word for 'hold fast' (think glue) followed by an anagram of 'cable' then a single letter for 'king' giving a fish.

4d - Three letter abbreviaton of 'common' followed by a (flat) 'fish' with a three letter Japanese title (san) inserted after the fourth letter of the fish giving a word meaning 'helpfullness'.

5d - Anagram of 'all ivory'.

11d - One letter abbreviation for 'island' followed by a synonym for 'races' (in the people related sense) with a three letter word (dag) meaning 'eccentric' inserted after the initial 'n' giving an old fashioned word for 'haunts'.

GRM

Azed

14d - Anagram of 'plant-house' minus 'use' - H?P?O?T

gordonia

Question Author

Many thanks GRM and woodstockbit for the answer and hints.

GRM

Azed

2a - 'A' plus a 'written message' (think of something you post) with 'er' removed put inside a word for handbag (C?B?S) giving 'simple operatic songs' - C?B?L?E?A?

gordonia

Question Author

Apologies everybody,the last word of 11 down in Mephisto should have read hunts not haunts.

GRM

So it should! I should have typed my reply in full rather than being lazy and using 'cut and paste' which perpetuated the error.

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