A 23rd of May Perplexity

2 Responses to A 23rd of May Perplexity

1. Peter Biddlecombe | May 27, 2008 at 4:16 am |

   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”.

2. AS | May 27, 2008 at 8:08 am |

   Peter, are you DA?

   I can’t see how anyone other than DA would have solved that.

   Thank you!