Rule Over Great Northern Disaster

[satprof]

Alphapuzzle cryptic clue for today.

(Original: Rule over Great Northern disaster.)

[mallyh]

reign?

[JJ109]

I thought that Mallyh ut how do you parse the "I"?

[bobbinwales]

Does clue say over ONE or over A great northern desaster

[mallyh]

i just thought r = rule ie (ei) reversed g n great northern .....it is early and only had 1 coffee lol

[bobbinwales]

For disaster to be in there there must be an anagram. As we have RE GN the I must come somewhere else not before the great so maybe its "I rule over great northern disaster"

[bobbinwales]

must be TARGET

[bobbinwales]

Sorry forget that.
Clue is exactly as printed in paper.
Clue suggests anagram of GreatN as theyve use N for Northern (well Northerner) recently

[bobbinwales]

argent?

[emmie]

i think mally is correct

[bobbinwales]

Dosnt mean rule though. I give up

[bobbinwales]

but rule is also the definition. Where does IE come from?

[Dummyfluter]

GOVERN

[mallyh]

well done dummyfluter

[bobbinwales]

Ha, well done. Tried every anagram permutation except that

[mouseymick]

Govern .. 12,5,20,17,2,8 and Q is 24.