Daily Telegraph DT26912 Cryptic

[cross-stitcher]

Can anyone help me please with the last answer I need. Its 15 dwn "Take tiller for craft of girls organisation" (9) I've got..... g?i?e?s?p. If you would explain your answer please I'd be everso grateful ....many thanks

[shooty]

guideship ?

[wardlaw]

Guidesship?

[cathfromsaron]

guide ship

[cathfromsaron]

take tiller = guide
craft = ship

[shooty]

Hmmm Does such a word exist ?

[cathfromsaron]

oneacross.com agrees x

[shooty]

Thanks Cath, It is not in either of my two that I use.: )

[cross-stitcher]

Many thanks everyone !! I've not heard of that before so thanks agin!

[cathfromsaron]

imagine its like a tug?

[shooty]

I agree that to take the tiller would be to 'guide ship'. I would have said it would be 5,4 then, would it not ?

[Mamyalynne]

http://www.collinsdic...ary/english/guideship

[Mamyalynne]

I think the girls organisation might be the bigger part of the clue.

[Psybbo]

Perhaps guideship is like lordship or ladyship?

[johnalex]

Chambers 9th Edition p660 . . . ."the activities of a Guide"

[newbroughsom]

maybe a celt term?

[Aquagility]

And in Chambers 10th ed.

[dannyk13]

Guideship (self explanatory)