Telegraph Cryptic Connections Puzzle For This Week

[Matakari]

Good evening, I’m stuck on 2,3,4 and 5. Help would be kindly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

In a Cryptic Connections puzzle, five cryptic crossword clues must be solved; their answers can be made from the list of letters given underneath. Once all the clues have been solved, some letters will be unused; these can be arranged to give a word or phrase that links the answers to the five clues.

1 Composer to include European strand (5) FIBRE
2 Current restaurant worker? Not current! (5)
3 Girl upset with this gesture could be lawgiver (4)
4 Cold green lake is flatter (5)
5 Base where Torvill and Dean go after performance? (6)


A A A A B C C C E E E E F F F H I L N O O R R R T T V W W W

[Neveracrossword]

It might be like your earlier one - nul points!
Your 1 is wrong - I think it's beach, strand. Bach, composer, with E, European, inside.

[bobbinwales]

2- long shot CHIEF (I current in chef)

[Neveracrossword]

5 Office, base - Off Ice (Torvill and Dean being skaters).

[bobbinwales]

agree with BEACH. I never heard of a composer called FIBR

[Neveracrossword]

Thanksm Bobbinwales - and Beach would mean your Chief wouldn't work as there is only one H. (I am paying attention, Matakari had words with unavailable letters last time.)

[Neveracrossword]

4 Crawl, flatter, verb. C +Raw +L, lake.

[bobbinwales]

the worker one may end in ant

[Neveracrossword]

2 Water, current - taking the I, current from Waiter, restaurant worker.

[bobbinwales]

Water is perfect. Does that leave
A E F N O R T V W?

[Neveracrossword]

3 Wave - take the letters of 'girl' from lawgiver.

Matakari, do you want to unscramble the leftover letters? I know what it is, but you might like trying that bit!

[bobbinwales]

Theres only one word from those remaining letters

[Neveracrossword]

Yes, it's pretty straightforward now...!

[bobbinwales]

Hopefully matakari will be at the head of the queue to answer it now

[Matakari]

Thanks, all for the great help! For 2, I saw "water", but could not get the parsing. I will enjoy unscrambling the leftover letters, NACW. Many thanks again for the comprehensive parsing!

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks, Matakari - unscrambling the letters should take seconds. I saw the link first and then confirmed it!

PS How were you getting Fibre to work? I've been trying all sorts of things...

[Matakari]

NACW, I was looking at "fibre" as a definition for strand and it is also French, but the definition is obviously "composer". I did not see the connection "strand"/"beach".

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks, Matakari - all I could come up with was that Fibre could mean, maybe tenuously, strand ... and absolutely nothing to do with anything else in the clue!

[bobbinwales]

//but the definition is obviously "composer"//
It looks like the definition was strand asin seashore/beach.

Assume youve got the link now and sorted the anagram of the 5 lettters left?

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks for that, Bobbinwales -I hoped Matakari would realise later that he'd got that bit wrong too! He is bound to have got the link ord... well, I hope he has.