Donate SIGN UP

Speccie 2433

Avatar Image
hankir | 23:32 Thu 07th Nov 2019 | Crosswords
6 Answers
28. Bloke reduced woman as Heep did (6)

34a. Mac's poodles turned silly onboard ship (6)
Snools?

I have only one painter so far.
Are these 18th century painters?

Thanks.
Gravatar

Answers

1 to 6 of 6rss feed

Best Answer

No best answer has yet been selected by hankir. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.

For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.
34a I am not doing the crossword so don't know for sure, but SNOOLS looks good.
The "Scots" word (indicated by Mac) "snool" is a cowering or bullied person that wants to help, similar to the slang term "poodle". Then of course it is "loon"(silly) reversed inside "SS"
Hi Hankir. The answer to 28 is oilily which describes what Uriah Heep was like. A bloke in the UK is a yoik..
No I haven't got any of the painters yet!
Question Author
Thank you jj109 and farrwest.

Yoik reduced means last letter dropped. In this case,both first and last letters are dropped.
oik
/ɔɪk/
nounINFORMAL•BRITISH
an uncouth or obnoxious person.

Oi(k) Lily
The painters are 18th and 19th century
Question Author
Farrwest,

Earns is Gains and Nation is Land.

Oik is also a bloke.

1 to 6 of 6rss feed

Do you know the answer?

Speccie 2433

Answer Question >>

Related Questions