Dec Saga

[Rosie29]

Please help with these two - don't think they've been asked before. 8d - Bell the cat - alternatively strangle the pet (5,3,6,) ?R?E? T?? ?E?T?E and is 19ac Ligase or Lipase? (Enzyme as found in old cows ) (6) Thank you

[elliemay1]

seen as grasp the nettle

[elliemay1]

^anagram of strangle the cat

[Rosie29]

Thanks ellie - I must have got something wrong - I don't really understand the clue though.

[shaneystar2]

Kin(as)e

[mallyh]

ligase

[Rosie29]

Thanks again - but Bell the Cat????

[shaneystar2]

Bell the cat means to attempt, or agree to perform, an impossibly difficult task.Hence ..grasp the nettle ..or take the bull by the horns etc .

[Mamyalynne]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/To+bell+the+cat


synonym for 'grasp the nettle'

[Rosie29]

yes kinase I think - Kine old word for cow

[elliemay1]

to perform a very dangerous or very difficult task; - taken metaphorically from a fable about a mouse who proposes to put a bell on a cat, so as to be able to hear the cat coming.

[shaneystar2]

Kine is an old term for cows or cattle ..round (as)
Kinase is an enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of a proenzyme to an active enzyme.

[Rosie29]

Shaney and Lynne thanks - wonderful phrase - love it.