Men Only

[granny grump]

21. Slang word for look or a glance
30. Though he had a 'ring of steele' he was still afraid of his wife Elisabeth (no number of letters given)
49. NMae given to rural workers unrest in S England in 1829 (7 5 5)

Please can you help?

[Zhukov]

Butchers?

[MarkRae]

30 Capt. Mainwaring.

[MarkRae]

49. English Swing Riots, maybe...?

[granny grump]

Sorry Zhukov I should have said it was 6 lettes Thank you Mark

[ubasses]

shufti

[Postdog]

last one swing riots

Possible alternative for the first on is shufti

[katburd]

21. gawk, eyeball

[MarkRae]

Swing Riots, sure, but what is the first word...?

[ubasses]

letters were sent to the landowners from Captain Swing so could be Captain

[MarkRae]

I thought of that, but the year would be 1830, not 1829...

Still, I suppose that wouldn't be the first quiz which hadn't been checked properly... ;-)

[granny grump]

Thank you but I can't see the link with 'Men Only'

[MarkRae]

Well, Captain Swing was fairly famously a man... ;-)

[granny grump]

Sorry Markrae - typed before I saw your post with Captain in

[Calibax]

49 Captain Swing Riots (1830?)

[MarkRae]

We're all there, Calibax, but the year is incorrect...

[granny grump]

Thank you calibax - can anyone explain the Men only connection to Shuftie

[ubasses]

no I wandered off on that one. Has it got to be human could be gander

[MarkRae]

I can't, GG. Shufti comes from the regular Arabic verb meaning to look:

http://www.urbandicti...efine.php?term=shufti

[granny grump]

Thank you ubasses by jove you've got it

[Peter Pedant]

Shufti is meant to have been imported by national service men from colloquial egyptian arabic

Ashoof means I see and can even be used metaphorically in the sense of I'll see about that

and I think it may be an empty verb - not enough letters but I will have to ask one of my frenz - that is the 'oo' is a 'waw' and should be a vowel but is acting as a consonant