Indie Saturday

[doctordolittle]

I have three left. I have the answers but am struggling with the derivations.

Fairy tale year following heir a little way inside (7, 5) S_ _ _E_S/_T_RY
I'm dismayed second French wife's our for a run (6, 2) _E_R_E/_E
Prevent sailors breaking bottle (8) _ _ _E_T_P

I think the answers are spiders story, dearie me and sidestep but the origins are not clear to me.

[scorpiojo]

2 Dearie me

[doctordolittle]

I know, but why?

[scorpiojo]

Success St or y

[Lie-in King]

Success story - 'y(ear)' (after) 'st(reet)' (in) 'successor' (heir)

[scorpiojo]

Working on it Dr D

[Lie-in King]

Screwtop (bottle) - 'crew' (sailors, breaking; in) 'stop' (prevent)

[doctordolittle]

Ooh I like that one. This means that prevent sailors is now _C_E_T_P so sidestep is out

[doctordolittle]

Screwtop, very good!!

[scorpiojo]

Maj, I can't parse dearie me :(

[aelmpvw]

screwtop

[doctordolittle]

That makes two of us. Come on Lie-in King!!

[Lie-in King]

Dearie me - from 'deuxieme' (Fr. "second"), replace 'ux(or)' (Latin "wife") with 'a r(un)'

[doctordolittle]

How about second in French is deuxieme, wife is ux (short for uxor), replaced by a r. Ta-daa!!

[scorpiojo]

Yay!