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Clue no. 17: It's heavy to drink at place where tramps get loaded
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| I don't know about MCJOB, but TOKAY certainly defeated the anagram fiends – just a single one, which must be a first. T + OKAY was the most obvious treatment, so a clue using this wordplay needed something special to distinguish it, and only 36 managed this in a sufficiently misleading, if rather closed-shop, sort of way. I liked 17 for its several puns and coherent surface, and 24 was the best of the Tays. 33 won me over with a clever idea, though I guess a gecko's tail is attached to a gecko's bum rather than a whole gecko. Finally 15 and 41 were the most satisfying of the rest. A couple of devices I couldn't accept: "A drink, we hear" for the letter T (it doesn't sound like 'tea' when it's in 'tokay'); "pieces of Bartok and Kodaly" (much too vague); and "right out of Tolkien" for to(l)k(ien) (very indirect). |
