Daily Mail Pitcherwits Tuesday 10Th December

[pipdawg]

I'm very new to cryptic crosswords but I'm learning fast. I've just completed today's Daily Mail Pitcherwits but, if anyone out there's got the inclination (and a copy of the Daily Mail in front of them), please could you explain some of the answers to me.
1 across. Bottle Screw. What's this got to do with 'cable'? (Picture clue)
8 across. Arena. What's this got to do with 'badly'? (Put badly near a stadium)
3 down. Rhyme. What's this got to do with 'frosty'? (Nursery poem said in a frosty way)
4 down. Wire Drawing. (Making stuff for steel hawsers). Need an explanation please

[dannyk13]

8a.Put badly = anagram
3d.Rhyme sounds like rime (frost)

[Baldric]

ARENA anag 'near a'

[Baldric]

Rhyme, sounds like RIME which is frost

[Baldric]

1. 2 bottleS+CREW

[Dodger666]

Wire Drawing.

Say what you see, an overhead wire, then someone draw(ing). Steel Hawsers(ropes) are made by wire drawing.

[pipdawg]

thanks Danny - it seems like there are quite a few phrases that indicate anagram - that's another I must remember

[pipdawg]

Baldric - I'd got arena from 'near a'. It was the 'badly' bit I didn't understand (but now I've learnt that it indicates an anagram). I could see where 'bottle screw' came from but I don't understand what bottle screw has to do with 'cable' . Thanks for letting me know that RIME is frost - that's a new one to me.

[pipdawg]

thanks Dodger

[Baldric]

One of these pip,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnbuckle

[pipdawg]

thanks Baldric - that was a perfect explanation, and I've learnt yet another thing

[solrac]

Arena is an anagram of near a which is also a stadium

[pipdawg]

thanks, solrac