Saga August 2013

[cloudpirate]

i have finished the prize crossword but still cannot fathom the reasoning behind certain answers,anyone (and i know there will be multitudes) out there please put me out of my misery.

17across.collection of myths put together for circulation,incomplete (4)..answer Edda..why?

21 across. Admire Pound as a poet (7)...answer Marvell..why?

6down.Poet anon penning 'Jenny'?..answer can only be Sassoon..again why?


All help gratefully acknowledged in advance.

[factor-fiction]

Admire = marvel
Pound = L
Presumably Marvell was a poet

[Oldred]

6d soon (anon) including ass (Jenny is a female ass)

[gen2]

17a ADDE(d)

[factor-fiction]

pit together = added
incomplete= ADDE
for circulation: EDDA

[aelmpvw]

the 'edda' is incomplete

[Cryptomaniac]

Had similar problems to Cloudpirate, so can I join this thread? 1a: Dancer's postures - bent perhaps, intricately intertwined (10) -r-b-s---s. Looks like ARABESQUES but cannot relate to clue except in definition.

22a: Best food is fancy (7) c???i?e. Looks like CUISINE - but where's the cryptic element?

[elliemay1]

caprice?

[elliemay1]

cap=top
rice=food
caprice=fancy

[Mamyalynne]

As well as a bent dance posture, an Arabesque is....


An intricate or elaborate pattern or design: "the fluctuating shapes of a cloudscape, the complex arabesque of a camera movement, the blink of a character's eye"

[Cryptomaniac]

Thanks to Elliemay and Mamyalynne. Actually, it's the 1a clue that's really not very cryptic. Suppose you could call it a double-definition.

[Mamyalynne]

I think you are right, is the best I could see - sorry.

[megaflan]

I want to explain the clue - it's a beauty - "bent" is a type of grass i.e. "foliage". Look at the clue again!

[megaflan]

Comment to Cryptomaniac and Cloudpirate -
1Ac : Dancer's postures - bent perhaps, intricately intertwined (10)
Bent = grass = foliage (See Chambers English)