25May/082
A 23rd of May Perplexity
13dn: A psycho turns up during fairly polite search (4,5)
Can anyone provide the reasoning behind why this clue's answer is cast about?
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May 27th, 2008 - 04:16
Def: search
psycho = mad = BATS, which is reversed by way of “turns up”, and follows a=A to give ASTAB.
That leaves you “during fairly polite” to indicate the surrounding COUT. “during” is fairly obviously a containment indicator, and “fairly polite” = COUT(h), couth (which is probably in your dictionary) being “polite” by back-formation from “uncouth”.
May 27th, 2008 - 08:08
Peter, are you DA?
I can’t see how anyone other than DA would have solved that.
Thank you!