Spec 2551:Madness

[lashley]

help please re theme-also
17a lustred cloth pressed by a painter ?6 ??TA??
21a almost like Hamlet's hairs 5 TR??? tress?
22a i blend fine rum mixing one for madam 7 ??I???R
37a the gallic gentleman returned GEORGIA'S SUGAR 5
THANKS

[lashley]

got 37a now

[teacher1]

21a. Tragi ... definition of tragi by Medical dictionary
https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/tragi
tragi: ( trā'jī ), 1. Plural of tragus. 2. The hairs growing at the entrance to the external acoustic meatus.

[ProfessorMaisie]

17 SATARA 22 UNIFIER

[ProfessorMaisie]

The unclued all have the same 4 letter prefix which is a word in the bottom left quadrant (diagonally - reading up the way).

[lashley]

Ma
ny thanks-can u explain madam reference please?

[ProfessorMaisie]

Swap the M(adam) for another I and it's an anagram of FINE RU(M) + I

[ProfessorMaisie]

...my hint for the theme is misleading (sorry) the unclued entries lead to synonyms which have the same 4 letter prefix. The entries haven't any thematic connection other than that - if you have Chambers look at words following on from the 4 letter word, there aren't very many.

[lashley]

thanks-still stuck on prefix
also is 28d gaiety ie lasses promoting recipe start to eat fish have G?I?T? get the lasses/start to eat and fish but why promoting recipe?

[ProfessorMaisie]

28 GRILSE

[lashley]

think i've got prefix=band?(madness)

[ProfessorMaisie]

The title is a hint to the 4 letter word - Suggs & co.

[ProfessorMaisie]

You just beat me to it, lashley.

[dannyk13]

21 a(from Teacher)
21a. Tragi ... definition of tragi by Medical dictionary
https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/tragi

[dannyk13]

Ignore my last post.