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[jadzia49]

Bad as Allingham's May-Day. Use remote,say, on Lodge's lecturer ?(4,4)

[juliefer]

Evil Zapp? William Allingham wrote a work called Evil May-Day and Maurice Zapp was a lecturer in books by David Lodge. Zapp also sounds like zap, which fits the 'use remote, say' part of the clue.

[jadzia49]

Thanks for that , I agree. But managed to work it out myself just after I posted it. LOL. :)

Jadzia