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elderly | 17:48 Thu 21st Sep 2006 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Hello everyone, hubby is back again having a go at his xwords but need help please.
AZED - 19A - what makes Shakespear heave, we hear, is opening of Macbeth (4) ?C?E
29D - Vessels can shed sails and escape. avoiding e.g.horn (5) ?ASES
3D - ? Detrition
19D - ? Singlet

SAGA
16A - Birds run wild within Hell-Gate (7) A?E????
4D - University stops essays in ancient greek (7) T?E?C??
7D - Spring term up at Eltons beginning (7) E?A?A?E
14D - Tin box of old that was hard to hunt down (5) ???R?

Sorry - it is quite a lot he is asking, THANKS for all help in advance.
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19A SCYE
29D VASES
3D DETRITION...correct
19d SINGLEt...correct
I haven't done the Saga, but 4d looks awfully like THESEUS.
Scye is a Shakesperean spelling of 'sigh' so as in 'heave a sigh'...plus a scye is an opening for a sleeve in Scottish (Macbeth) dialect.
Vassails is an old word for vessels, so take away 'sails' leaving 'vas'...plus escape minus cape, as in Cape Horn = es. Put the two together = vases.
Saga 7d emanate (name reversed + at + e)
16a avernus.
Aves = birds with an anagram of run inserted
14D SNARK...Sn = tin symbol + ark.
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Thank you ALL so much especially Quizmonster for help with explanations not forgetting mahonia.
I thought the VAS part of VASES came from (CAN)VAS = sails, with can being shed
Yours is actually a better approach, Pld, as my suggestion now seems to "double back on itself", as it were. I'm just glad we reached the same end-point! Cheers

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