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?
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?
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”.
Peter, are you DA?
I can’t see how anyone other than DA would have solved that.
Thank you!