Comments on: A 23rd of May Perplexity http://datrippers.com/2008/05/25/a-23rd-of-may-perplexity/ "A force for good", David Astle (DA) Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:28:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: AS http://datrippers.com/2008/05/25/a-23rd-of-may-perplexity/#comment-3 AS Tue, 27 May 2008 13:08:29 +0000 http://anagrammatically.com/cryptic/2008/05/25/a-23rd-of-may-perplexity/#comment-3 Peter, are you DA? I can't see how anyone other than DA would have solved that. Thank you! Peter, are you DA?

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

Thank you!

]]> By: Peter Biddlecombe http://datrippers.com/2008/05/25/a-23rd-of-may-perplexity/#comment-2 Peter Biddlecombe Tue, 27 May 2008 09:16:31 +0000 http://anagrammatically.com/cryptic/2008/05/25/a-23rd-of-may-perplexity/#comment-2 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". 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”.

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