Listener 4327

[AMartinP]

4D (normal clue, which still eludes me): Upright author appears from poem, reading this: m*st. I just can't work this one out.

[dannyk13]

Post?

[djawhufc]

Mast I think- poe (author) taken from poem leaves m

[AMartinP]

Thank you. It mast be must, or vice versa...

[TheFrogman]

I think the intention is that reading 'M AS T' in poeM gives you poeT (ie author), the definition of the whole being 'upright'. I have to say that Azed does this sort of clue rather better, as 'poem' amd 'poet' are just two views of the same thing (compare Azed's classic 'My letters could make lad sad (4)').

[jim360]

Ah, of course, LISS, I remember her torment well!

[TheFrogman]

Close, jim360, close... ;-)

[Quizmonster]

Think 'as' rather than 'is', Jim.

[jim360]

I had actually figured that but was attempting to make a joke.

[TheFrogman]

...I rather thought you were (or else that you know more lisses...and, by analogy, lids...than I do) 8)