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ev no. 752

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crofter | 00:33 Thu 05th Apr 2007 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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2d Rustic in quest of earth (4) F?RD

As far as I can determine, the only options are FORD and FARD. Personally, I favour FORD but have no sound rationale for doing so!

Any ideas gratefully received?
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...or FYRD?

An Anglo-Saxon levy on farmers.???
01:06 Thu 05th Apr 2007
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Yes, I think, "Fyrd". See also "Leidang" or "Leidangr" - sort of conscript farmers' militia to defend, but also agressive (rustics in search of new land, you could say).
01:41 Thu 05th Apr 2007
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Nice one Phil ~ thanks for that.

There's a couple of problems though: EV is highly cryptic and FYRD has no cryptic element to it at all!
Furthermore, I have just looked up "for" in Chambers and have found listed "in quest of".

That gives a strong case for FORD ~ but why "rustic" and why "earth"?
01:42 Thu 05th Apr 2007
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crofter, seeing some of the notes from yesterday there was talk of omitting the letters ST.
Take the word FOREST and this means rustic (Chambers).
11:00 Thu 05th Apr 2007
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fore is right
13:56 Thu 05th Apr 2007
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Sorry -should have added that "e2 is confirmed by "dae" the answer to 16 across.
14:01 Thu 05th Apr 2007

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