Dtgk 15Th March

[mjganswers]

Brain seems to have ceased working.

45d cookery term to coat food with chocolate (7) e?r?t?

60a cataclysmic wave caused by displacement of massive volumres of seawater. (7) ?s?n?s?

TIA

[scorpiojo]

60 tsunami?

[factor-fiction]

45d- is it 7 or 6 as shown?
Thanks

TSUNAMI

[dannyk13]

45d.Enrobe

[factor-fiction]

I thought it was temper but that doesn't fit

[EcclesCake]

Factor, tempering is the preparation of the chocolate before enrobing.

[dannyk13]

45d.Your t is wrong.Think the across clue is backbone.

[factor-fiction]

Thanks EcclesCake- it was just a term I recall hearing on one of these Mary Berry/Paul Hollywood programmes. I've checked ENROBE and agree it is right but I'd never heard the term before today

[cagedvole]

60a must be TSUNAMI, but it means 53 d would need to be ANNUM instead of ANNUS. Trouble is annum isn't latin for "year", it's wrong :-(

[aelmpvw]

surely annum is latin for year?

[Mamyalynne]

annum
Web definitions
(Latin) year; "per annum"
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=annum

[Lie-in King]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/annum

[Mamyalynne]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/annum

[Mamyalynne]

Snap!!

[boxtops]

It is Latin for year under certain combinations, e.g. per annum = yearly

[cagedvole]

I take the point about per annum, but I still don't think it's a very good clue for a GK crossword. The Latin for year is annus......it's only annum if you've got the rest of a phrase to make it be in the accusative :-p