Spectator 2512

[pomona]

All done except...
26a Livingstone's pet requested something (3) AS?

[ProfessorMaisie]

Ken Livingstone has/had a pet newt called 'Adolf' - a young newt is an...

[ProfessorMaisie]

sorry, it's a dialect word for a newt (and 'something requested' is the less common noun of the more usual 'request').

[pomona]

Thanks ProfessorMaisie.
Hard one today ...hit on the theme quite by accident...even though i have read it many times in the past!!

[ProfessorMaisie]

It was all news to me - luckily I hit on a web site with all of the details (by the way, 'Adolf' the newt was a spoof and the reporter apologised for repeating it - but KL kept newts at his home, I think that is true).

[ProfessorMaisie]

...and yes, pomona - I found it tough too.

[novalis]

I always find Pabulum's offerings challenging and this was no exception.