Mephisto 2808

[GetOverIt]

Help with my last clue, please.

9d Boy getting back to the front (4)

E?AN - Is this Evan or Ewan?

Is " getting back" doing double service?

Meaning to move the last letter to the front AND meaning getting back = wane?

Or can a definition of VANE mean back or spine?

...or am I missing the point totally?

[maurice]

I would have thought the "front" bit is "van" as in "vanguard", and possibly the "e" is then the "back" of "the", no?

[dannyk13]

I would go with wane & ewan

[GetOverIt]

Okay! Two different answers already. I think I'm convinced by your argument, maurice, which I didn't spot.

[pomona]

33a Jazz not right for little boy (3) T?D
If the answer is tad from t(r)ad then where's the boy?

[GetOverIt]

I thought t(r)ad Jazz

[dannyk13]

In the US & Canada a tad is a small boy.

[GetOverIt]

Sorry, you had that bit. Chambers says tad is a word for a little lad -especially in America

[jazzgirl]

tad late 19th century (denoting a small child): origin uncertain, perhaps from tadpole. The current usage dates from the 1940s.

[pomona]

Many thanks to GetOverIt, dannyk13 & jazz-girl