sun times 4313

[hideaway]

13d 11 letters lean on stick before a dance - object if the caller's incompetent
t -i -g- m -j -g

thank you

[dr b]

thin+gam+a+jig

[hideaway]

thank you dr b

[aeronut]

You might also consider the alternate spelling-
thingumajig.
It seems to me that it breaks down as lean-thin
gum-stick
a jig- a dance

[hideaway]

thank you aeronut - unfortunately I have just inked in thingamajig -but your breakdown does seem correct.

[dr b]

I would go for 'gam' based on one definition of stick as 'informal term for the leg' (which is also the definition of gam), but as there is no crossing letter to settle it, we can both be right!

[aeronut]

Well gam has a second meaning -to congregate, which might be what the setter was thinking of. Who knows?

[aeronut]

I think that we are both right, but one of us is wrong:-))