Lunchtime Insight Please

[highbury57]

Room At The Top, perhaps, with top atmosphere about top of Warnley(3-4) T*O/*A*R
and To increase Orange Prize sum finalists get previous award(6) ***E*M
Pretty sure other letters are right.

[dannyk13]

Two pair- W(arnley) inside top +air(atmosphhere)

[maggiebee]

Only thing I can see for the first one is Two Pair, but doesn't sound right!

[maggiebee]

Redeem?

[highbury57]

Can't believe you can both be wrong! But I wonder what it means.....

[highbury57]

Had thought of redeem but couldn't see the link between clue and answer. Could be that I am impercerptive without food.

[maggiebee]

Like danny's explanation!

[Mamyalynne]

Is the crossword themed?

[dannyk13]

I think room refers to a poker room:-
http://dictionary.pokerzone.com/Top+Two+Pair

[highbury57]

yes, it's about alternatives and pairs.

[Mamyalynne]

Redeem

Red + Orang(e) Priz(e) su(m) finalists


If the 'previous' referred to 'Red'?

[bibblebub]

2: addeem

in Chambers as an obsolete word meaning to award

[highbury57]

But given this I still don't see how to derive Two Pair from anything in Braine's novel

[Mamyalynne]

Much better, thank you.

[highbury57]

Any poker in the novel or is this barking up the wrong tree entirely?

[highbury57]

Redeem works absolutely.

[fiction-factory]

addeem is worth considering too

[fiction-factory]

Go for ADDEEM- work perfectly as bibblebub explained

[Mamyalynne]

I agree , following Bibblebub's intervention


Add + Orang(e) Priz(e) su(m) finalists

[highbury57]

I think it must be addeem on second thoughts as Sounds like there's something immature in Melville's character is Rudd rather than rude. The Perreaus and Mrs Rudd seems to be the link.

[NC4BBQ]

For 21d BUDD works better: "something immature" = bud.