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Dean Mayer Christmas Special

chardon713 | 05:09 Sun 20th Dec 2015 | Crosswords

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The Dean Myer Christmas Crossword ...
Your help with 15a greatfully received, and acknowledged
"Making festive soup that's not filling? Apparently fish to eat" (11)
The letter pattern is _e_p_n_l_n_
This suggests "bespangling" = making festive ... and then ling or angling covers the fish .. but what about the soup?

Daily Mail 19/12

Stuck On One As Usual.

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Buenchico

Possibly 'soup', without a filling, leaves you 'sp'???

chardon713

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Excellent thought buenchico ...wondering if you can help further.
With sp and ling -we have b,e,a,n,g left over to make sense of
Or if fish = angling - we have b,e left.
Any ideas?

1ozzy

Possibly Be angling = fish to eat?
Around empty s(ou)p

Buenchico

I'm rubbish at cryptics but I thought that 'be' might just it's normal meaning (as to be doing something), related to 'making' That leaves sp (as per my first post) + angling.

1ozzy

I didn't post quite what I meant.
Apparently = be
Fish to eat = angling
around "sp".

Well, that's my angle ;-)

chardon713

Question Author

Many thanks to Beunchico and 1ozzy ... your parsing seems both likely and correct