Lynne Is Almost Devastated: Maybe She Didn't Get A 4 Today?

[BrawLass]

16a Lynne is almost devastated: maybe she didn't get a 4 today? 2/10/3
S? V?i?n?i?e? Day
Think I must have something wrong with my other answers.

[Mamyalynne]

St Valentine's Day

Love

Lynne ♥

[factor-fiction]

St valentines Day

[pixie373]

St valentine day. Where is the I from?

[bookbinder]

St Valentines Day

[mallyh]

st valentines day

[Jackdaw33]

St Valentine's Day your 3rd i is wrong.

[BrawLass]

Thanks to you all, thought it was Valentines but now I'm stuck on 18d l?o?i??? (8) thought that was idolised!

[Mamyalynne]

Lionised

[Jackdaw33]

Lionised?

[Baldric]

lionised

[factor-fiction]

One of my favourite songs by The Eagles

[Psybbo]

There you go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeNBspJGVko&feature=player_detailpage#t=8

[factor-fiction]

Thanks, Psybbo. I need to find my headphones so I'll listen later

[BrawLass]

Thanks all, now I can concentrate on the rugby!

[brainiac]

Haveen't come across this setter in the i before - Saturday is usually set by PHI or DAC, two of the best setters. Some pretty dodgy clues, I thought, particularly: "Male chauvinists lust after getting stripped". The answer is LECH (hidden in maLE CHauvinists), but the definition part of the clue - lust - is in the middle, not at the beginning or the end, where convention says that it should be!

[Mamyalynne]

You may I suppose describe a 'Male Chauvinist' as a Lech too ( short for lecher)?


I agree not too good though.

[brainiac]

But then it wouldn't be 'chauvinists' in the plural. I think the other two good setters in the i are Quixote and Virgilius, who often does themed puzzles. I least like ANAX (who is Dean Mayer, setter for the Sunday times, and source of many many requests for help on the Answerbank!), and PUNK, who sets as Paul for the Guardian

[Mamyalynne]

Yes a poor stab in the dark from me.

I don't do the i,but Times and Guardian yes - every now and then rogue clues appear I guess