Christmas Dingbats

[Quizzer63]

Trying to work out answers for the Pendleside Hospice Festive Dingbats.
Can anyone suggest an answer for the following dingbat :-

AMIENS
CAUSED
PEPSI
GENIUS
PRIME

All in capitals and not aligned as some clues.
The answer can be anything festive - carol lyrics, films, christmas phrases etc.
Thanks for any help and festive greetings Q63.

[cashier]

Not easy to follow without seeing the non alignment part.

[Quizzer63]

All the words are centre aligned text so there is no word reading vertically as there are with some clues. Hope that make sense.

[elliemay1]

Any ideas?

[elliemay1]

Was this ever solved?

[hops]

hello, ellie, you will need mallyh and scorpio and the rest of the brains trust for this one, the dingbat does not make any sense, there is nothing to get your teeth into

[mallyh]

nothing comes to mind from me i've been looking at it for ages x

[hops]

hello, mallyh, how are you,amiens has min in it which would leave sea which might be [min] sea or min [ce] and pepsi and prime have pie in them,also there is a genius pie sold at sainsbury's and asda, when the compiler uses the word cause or caused in this case he usually means [rum] sauce, so it maybe a case for somehow putting these together and that is where i am stuck, food for thought!

[mallyh]

full of cold like a lot of people x
i've tried all sorts of combinations and keep going back to it xx

[Quizzer63]

Thanks to all for trying to help - still puzzling me.
I keep mulling over Amiens Cathedral, Treaty of Amiens, Peace of Amiens, Lord Amiens (character in As You Like It).

[Kirsampau]

It is mince pies (Hops), if you take the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 11th, 13th, 17th, 19th and 23rd letters (the first 9 prime numbers) in the clue, you end up with mince pies.

[elliemay1]

What a genius you are Kirsampau!

[mallyh]

good grief ,wouldn't have got that one in a million years ,not your usual dingbat .well done on getting it x

[hops]

hi, kirsa,you are right in that but your 23rd letter ends with the s in genius so why is prime there as the last word of the dingbat?

[mallyh]

this is not the normal dingbat of say what you see x

[hops]

sorry kirsa, prime is the clue i see it now, i'm frozen stiff and so's the brain, well done, it was food for thought after all

[Quizzer63]

Thanks Kirsampau - I follow your logic and it just about seems to fulfil the setter's golden rule "Answer the Dingbat, the whole Dingbat,
and nothing but the Dingbat".
Thanks again to you and all who have wracked their brains over this clue. Festive greetings to you all

[WalksWalker]

The answer is not Mince Pies.

The Pendleside Hospice clues are notoriously picky and every part must be exact or you won't get scored for it.

Prime is the Key!
Line the words up in order and give them each a number in order from 1 upwards.
If you highlight each prime number, the letters will spell
A MINCE PIE

[THECORBYLOON]

WW, one is not a prime number but twenty-three is.

The letter, "S" is at number twenty-three but you didn’t include it in your answer.

If you had and if one were a prime, the answer would be "A MINCE PIES" which makes no sense.