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roslyn251254 | 07:38 Sun 23rd Oct 2011 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Nice early finish with this (despite Paul McKenna!) as it was online at 7pm last night, but in 31a: Don's nameless billet-doux for the Princess of France - i have capo for the answer - where does the princess of France come into it??
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Capon - love letter - less N (nameless) = CAPO - Mafia Don

The puzzle was actually on-line at lunchtime!
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Morning K. It gets earlier every week! Still don't see the Princess?
Now for Azed & another look at the Listener!
Some of the small ones are a bit tricky in Azed & there is a good EV.

Regards K
I would like to find out how capon (castrated cock) came to mean a love-letter" by Shakespeare's time:seems very paradoxical! So far have only learned the French word "poulet" has the same meaning. Any more learned scholars out there?

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