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Azed 2451 - Usual Queries

JJ109 | 03:42 Sun 02nd Jun 2019 | Crosswords

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11a Half crazy (exactly!) about aged goddess (4) G _ _ A
I presume this is GAIA (goddess) and GA(ga) is "half crazy", but is AI (or IA) exactly?

18a Production of Tosca, new? __ 2 is fantastic (5) S _ ENA
(i presume SCENA, but can't parse)

4d Showy plant: see red one ran wild in rose garden (4) S_ _ O
(If Gaia is correct then this becomes SI _ O)

26d Of use to joiners - or railway workers? (5) E _ MEN

Many thanks

Everyman

Everyman

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iminoz

Best Answer

11a GAEA, alt. spelling. AE, old word for 'very' (exactly) 4d SEGO, a lily. "rose garden" is an anagram of "sego ran red", but that seems a bit loose.

03:59 Sun 02nd Jun 2019

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Jackdaw33

Remove the letters in two from tosca new and you are left with the letters of scena

iminoz

11a GAEA, alt. spelling. AE, old word for 'very' (exactly)

4d SEGO, a lily.
"rose garden" is an anagram of "sego ran red", but that seems a bit loose.

iminoz

26d. ELMEN, made of elm, of use to joiners?
EL = railway in US + MEN, workers

JJ109

Question Author

Many thanks both Jackdaw and Iminoz! I keep forgetting about these compound anagram thingy's!

pldcav

11a The parsing is GA (exactly half of GAGA) about AE (aetatis, aged)

depresion

2 down: Tropical skin disease making the afflicted pallid - not me! (11 letters- 3 words) Tried everything I can think of and cannot get it. The letters I have are MAL?E?P??TS No further indication as to length of words or breaks in the answer. Probably obvious, but no idea. Any help, please?