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Originally Posted by Nerwen
Oh, I think I get #6 now. “Drogo”, right? (Frodo’s father and also an anagram of “droog”.)
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Yes indeed. "There was me, Alex, and my three droogs," (George, Dim and the other one). Anthony Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange."
Just recopying my notes from the last post as I did some of them in an edit, so Mithalwen's Kindle might not pick them up. I'll put them in italics:
Yes, Lotho is correct. Just LOTH (unwilling) plus O (exclamation). And as Saruman said, "Worm killed Lotho ... Buried him, I hope, although Worm has been very hungry lately." (Ewww).
They all make sense. One or two are a little obscure, that is all. I was trying to make some of them a little more challenging this time.
I have made clue 6 easier, and it refers to another famous piece of C20th literature.
On clue 1, "forces back the mob" is the cryptic bit. "One rarely privileged" is the answer/straight part.
5. Think of a thespian establishment. Spoil it to get a place. Then the "doubly spoiled" bit will make sense.
T 1. One rarely privileged forces back the mob.
URWEN: Maiden hides pronoun in a vase.
MITHRANDIR: Legend sprinted expensively, we hear, for an epesse with a tempestuous echo.
LOTHO: Unwilling exclamation for one consumed – perhaps literally – by greed.
A 5. Doubly spoiled place was a thespian establishment.
DROGO: Alex’s companion reforms for the father of an Elf-Friend.
EGLANTINE BANKS: Prioress invests to become Tookish consort.
NOBOTTLE: Where the hobbits’ courage fails them, perhaps.