Times Grand Final Puzzle 2
Sadly 90 man minutes have been spent by myself and colleagues trying to unsuccessfully work out the wordplay for:
4d May the second, Milne's penning New Statesman? Ans is Hawaiian.
The statesman is the Hawaiian. AA comes from AA Milne. N is from New . Second might be ii. This still leaves haw but in any case I can’t see where the may and penning fit in .
6d Extremely rapid fire, seeing pilot releasing anger. Ans is fastest =extremely rapid. Test = pilot but how do we get fas?
12d Jerk up an elongated fish at end of hook –that’s good work! Ans Kangaroo-hop.
Jerk =kangaroo-hop (as in learning to drive!) . End of hook =k good =g work =op but still missing an arro h .
15d Fraud? (In that, in the past, billions missing) Ans quackery. . Quackery=fraud but no idea.
22d He’s “mislaid” case of claret, say. Ans Edwin. I can see r Edwin e but can’t see how you remove the r & e .
Astounding that the whole puzzle was solved in maybe 10 mins by so many!
Thanks