find the name

[bubs02]

the answer to my questions all contain a first name:

my first question is play senior woman (5,7)


2: the answer to this clue is a male name the clue is scottish swordblade (6,7,)


3: the answer is a male name the clue is Birds call angelic dogs(7,6)


4: the answer is a males name the clue is Sounds like old meatloaf, but made with special flour(6,5,)

[Quizmonster]

I'm not totally certain what you are asking here, but, from my own interpretation of what you mean, could the answer be 'Titania', based on 'Queen (5) Titania (7)'? As a queen, she is, of course, a 'senior' (fairy)-'woman' in the 'play', "A Midsummer Night's Dream". My apologies if you are looking for something utterly different.

[Miss Zippy]

Crikey Quizzy, how do you make the most illucid (? - is that how you say not-lucid???) questions seem so effortlessly fathomable? I take my hat off to you.

[Quizmonster]

I think we'd better wait for a response from the questioner, Miss Z, since I may simply have made "confusion worse confounded", as Milton put it! Thank you, nevertheless, for your kind comment. I love the idea of 'illucid', by the way, but sadly it is not so. The closest the OED comes is the verb 'illucidate', an archaic version of 'elucidate'. Cheers

[bubs02]

thankyou quizmonster you are on the right track with my quiz answers I originally had 100 questions and down to the last 9.A clue e.g. is Mr Silvers underwear and the answer was Long Johns.I don't fully understand how the answerbank works I have some question replies but am unable to open them because i can.t find the url? I also don't know how to rate the answers .

[Miss Zippy]

Thanks for putting me right on 'illucid' Q!

[AB Editor]

Hello bubs02 - a note on the unopenable answers: if the URL has broken over two lines in the email you received, simply piece it back together again into one complete string (no gaps between letters) and paste that into your browser (at the top of the screen) in order to read them. When you (eventually!) read an answer you are offered the chance to rate it. Hope this makes sense.

By the way, j2buttonsw asks if we can have the whole crossword puzzle as it may give us a clue about the missing letters? Or at least, tell us the missing letters in each case?

[darth vader]

Did i miss something here, or has the AB editor had to edit one of his own responses?