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Timessolver | 19:26 Tue 12th May 2009 | Crosswords
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All finished but not v. happy with 4d. Clue is: Divorced some time between Thursday and Tuesday. Answer seems to be 'unwed'. I can see that 'wed' may mean Wednesday, but where does 'UN' come from? Any help please? Also 2d. Clue is: Hamlet's rude man, a distant relative. Answer seems to be 'forefather'. Again. this may be a distant relative, but why a 'rude' man, either in 'hamlet' as a village, or Shakespeare's Hamlet?
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4d. Thursday to Tuesday is Not(=un) Wednesday, ie unwed.
2d is neither, it's literary reference to Thomas Gray's "Elegy written in a Country Churchyard" in which the reasonably well known line "The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep" features
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Thanks SO much to both of you. Might never have worked out the 'unwed', & I obviously needed reminding of the Elegy.

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