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[racoony]

Please help with parsing of 56 across.Clue is:Four German couples appearing at end of Huckleberry Finn? 5 letters.I have y?c?t.The answer must be YACHT.How does it fit with Finn?
Thanks for help.

[barry1010]

Acht is German for 8 if that helps

[Neveracrossword]

A Finn is a type of yacht, apparently - though boaty people would disagree apparently.

[racoony]

Thanks for the yacht explanation.It makes sense now.

[klazomaniac]

(huckleberr)Y + 2+2+2+2 = 8 (Acht in German)
As NAC said, A Finn is a Dingy (Yacht is asking a bit too much) ;-)

[Neveracrossword]

Klazo, there/their, dingy/dinghy... what is the world coming to?

[klazomaniac]

Lol NAC, I must have been in a rather dark and depressing place when I wrote that ! ;-)

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks, Klazo, I hope your light is shining brightly now?

[klazomaniac]

It's more of a 'Dim flicker' , but i'll get buy. lol ;-)

[Neveracrossword]

Klazo, are you trying for one ... slip-up per post?

[klazomaniac]

It was a joke (hence the lol.) ;-)
But I have no doubt it will happen again (along with typo's)
My typing is not the best. So to type and think what i'm trying to say at the same time is multi-tasking (Us Men aren't very good at that according to some.
So I don't worry too much about it :-)

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks, Klazo. My brain filters out all emojis, lols etc, so your joke went sailing past me! I am not nimble-fingered myself, but your little run of typos just made me chuckle - if you were a serial offender, I'd probably be tactful enough not to mention them.

[klazomaniac]

I spotted the 'there/ their' myself and corrected it before the grammar police came along. I was caught fair and square with 'dingy/dinghy'.
Just an error. Like I say, It doesn't bother me. I've made many errors on AB, I still sleep soundly at night.
And by all means point them out. I'm good for a laugh and won't take offence :-)

[Neveracrossword]

Klazo, I liked your instant spotting of the their/there - and wondered if anyone would have noticed if you hadn't (and decided that someone would have picked up on it, probably within minutes). The dingy/dinghy was obviously just a typo, but for most of us getting their/there or it's/its is more worrying - I'm sure I'd hate anyone to think I didn't know the difference!

[klazomaniac]

For me, Learning to read and write was a very long time ago. the reading part came as it does for most people. The Grammar really comes afterwards. To the best of my knowledge, I think 'Their, there and they're' also 'Where, wear, were and we're' were probably the first basics of grammar I was taught.
My grammar is not the best (I have to admit) Forgotten some of the things I was taught.
But I don't write for a living and I think my English is of a reasonable standard. So again, I sleep at night.

[klazomaniac]

Ps NAC, Just a little story.

After I had left school, I went to work as most do.
20 Years or so passed where I was on the tools and hadn't put pen to paper (very much) in all that time. My then 10 or 11 year old asked me how to spell a certain word (cannot remember what it was now) But I gave my answer (to the horror of my then partner) ''That's not correct'' I heard coming from another room.
She came through into the lounge and told our Daughter the correct spelling. They both had a giggle at me.

I had a conversation with my Ex later that evening, Explaining why my reading, spelling and grammar had become so poor over the years. I did very little of both. Just didn't have time due to Work, Renovating the house, Going out and pricing jobs and trying to be a Father.

It was She that suggested I should take up Crosswords to help me keep in touch with reading and writing. And it all started out with the Sun 2 way crossword (don't shout) It was hard for me then.

So that's how I got into Crosswords and loving them more now than I ever did.

Pps. I'm off out shortly as it's Friday night :-)
So please be gentle with me tomorrow (when I make my blunders) as I may be fragile.

Only joking, Catch you later NAC :-)

[Neveracrossword]

Hello again, Klazo. As you'd been poking fun at yourself (their, there), I couldn't resist doing the same with your dirty boat... now I feel a little guilty! Thanks for your little story - with its happy ending (your love of crosswords, and - unmentioned by you - your skill at crossword-solving). I expect there are many,many people who were in the same situation as you, where reading, writing,grammar etc weren't part of everyday life.
Enjoy your Friday outing!

[TheWinner]

I, too, credit my English teacher, as he gave crosswords to do, to help us to spell, as (obviously) if we didn't spell the answers correctly, they wouldn't fit the grid.

[klazomaniac]

Thank you for the lovely compliment Nac. And don't feel bad, We had a nice natter whilst AB was not very busy. It has kept me amused and i'm not thin skinned :-)

And I would have loved a Teacher like that, The Winner.
What cool lessons they must have been. :-)

Anyway, I'm offskies. Enjoy your evenings both. :-)