Does anyone else have an issue with Sat Telegraph 10d?

[bimbo123456]

My Fair Lady <the film starred Audrey Hepburn, although I believe Julie Andrews was in the stage show. I think this question is unnecessarily ambiguous. Also in 41 across surely it should be plaguey not plaguy? I think the quality of this crossword has dropped since Kate Mepham took over from Mike. any opinions? Rarely a week goes by without an error of some sort. Rant over!!

[tyrepill]

10 d asks for an English actress.

[Marden]

I think plaguy was easy to find from any Shakespeare source, but I can't figure out how I seem to have everything right in the corner but octet spoils it!! Tablet/trestle/leister/mosaic gold - so where have I gone wrong!!

[tyrepill]

46d Octad

[Marden]

whoops - meant treadle - that's what doesn't fit with octet, sorry.

[GK Jayne]

Octad
treadle

[Marden]

Octad! Thanks so much. Just couldn't find anything other than octet.

[Gill1941]

It is octad, Marden.
The original Shakespearian quote is plaguy. So I think you are picking holes, bimbo!!

[bimbo123456]

tyrepillAudrey Hepburn, who was in My Fair Lady, is English.!!! Hence my aggravation. That shakespeare sure knows how to mess with the English language.

[tyrepill]

I dont recall Audrey Hepburn in "Mary Poppins"

[Gill1941]

Audrey Hepburn was born in Brussels

[jocknroll]

There's nothing ambiguous about the question at all. Julie Andrews was in the extremely successful Broadway version of "My Fair Lady", long before the film appeared.

[POINCIANA]

Kate Mepham seems to specialise in simple answers coupled with complex or obscure clues. Once you realise this the GK on Saturdays becomes a proper challenge. Like everyone else she makes the odd mistake: in last week's Herculis she included part of the answer in the clue for 'forelock' and she put Enid Blyton back a hundred years, descibing her as a 'mid-19th century author'!
I think she does pretty well most of the time.