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[crockshard]

20a Moonshine purveyor's very real trembling during police operation. S?AR?E?ING. Must be 'starveling' (anag. v-real inside sting), but why?

[factor-fiction]

All comes clear from this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Starveling

[factor-fiction]

"Robin Starveling is a character in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595), one of the Rude Mechanicals who plays the part of Moonshine in their performance of Pyramus and Thisbe.!

[crockshard]

Many thanks - had not thought of that!

[geo0939]

V ery REAL inside STING (police operation).

[ngoddard]

Its a reference to A Midsummer Night's Dream, the character Robin Starveling was also "Moonshine" in the play within a play

[ngoddard]

Its a reference to A Midsummer Night's Dream, there is a character called Robin Starveling who also plays Moonshine in the play within the play.

[ngoddard]

This is a reference to A Midsummer Night's Dream, one of the mechanicals was called Starveling and he played the part of Moonshine in the play within the play

[bibblebub]

Why are you repeating your answer today, especially since that clue had already been explaIned more than 8 hours before the first time you posted it?

[bookbinder]

bibblebub, it looks as if ngoddard is either attention-seeking, just tinkering about, or really has no idea of how to use this site. A glance at his profile shows that he joined AB a few minutes before he posted his first answer, namely yesterday evening.

[bibblebub]

They're not the only one who does this, it happens quite often, and I just wonder why people do it. But each time I've asked there has never been an explanation from any of the perpetrators.

[ngoddard]

Sorry,only just joined working out how the site worked.