Prospect Magazine The Generalist Jan/Feb 2025

[kapple999]

The last 4 clues . . . . clues are not numbered, you also have to decide where to place them . . .  

8 letters beginning with T : A bustle or pad worn round the waist : I have T?U?N?R?

7 letters beginning with C : In the USA, a sweet ring-shaped cake fried in fat

7 letters beginning with O : Calcium carbonate structure in the vestibular system of vertebrates which helps to maintain equilibrium

7 letters beginning with S : Nautical term referring to a shore going down precipitously into the water (5-2)

For the 3x 7-letter words I have to choose between :     ?T?L?T?     ?T?E?T?     ?R?L?E?  

Many thanks in anticipation 

 

[newmodarmy]

OTOLITH

[Captain2]

Cruller

cruller

crul·ler

  (krŭl′ər)n.

A small, usually ring-shaped or twisted cake of sweet dough fried in deep fat.

[Captain2]

Steep-to

[newmodarmy]

cupcake/crumpet ?

[Toorak]

1 tournure

[Captain2]

steep-to

adjective

: precipitous

especially : sloping almost perpendicularly downward —used especially of a shore or shoal

[newmodarmy]

Thanks for cruller. I searched for criller and crilley; never thought of cru...

[kapple999]

Thank you all of you for such a fantastic response - Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year.

[Captain2]

.. and all the best for your 'prospects' too, kapple. 😉