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[peanut247]

8d Wife joins railway head in sardonic style w?y?s? Wryish or wryest ?

[Touchstone]

Been answered as wryness

[factor-fiction]

I can see the RY for railway and w for wife but not the rest, and I can see wryish would be a sardonic style. I prefer wryish to wryest- but someoe earlier suggested wryest as the answer

[factor-fiction]

Wryness has 7 letters- the OP suggested only 6 unless it's a typo

[peanut247]

there is not enough room for wryness

[factor-fiction]

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1043645.html
This poster also says it only has 6 letters.

It's odd because WRYNESS would fit the answer perfectly ( W +RY + NESS)
w= wife
RW= railway
NESS = head (as in headland)

[factor-fiction]

^Sorry- typo. I meant RY for railway

[ronayne]

i've put wryest?

[factor-fiction]

I can't see the wordplay though for wryest, ronayne. And I can't see why WRYEST is better than WRYSIH

[ronayne]

i totally agree with you factor 30 , but i cant find the word wryish anywhere, whereas puzzle master only gave wryest - no more sense than that

[sir.prize]

Wryest is definitely correct

[factor-fiction]

Can you see the full wordplay for Wryest, sir.prize?

[Valanne]

If the answer is wryest the clue should refer to most sardonic style. It seems to me that the compiler has made a mistake. The clue only leads to wryness - perhaps one needs to fill in wryess(!) and assume n is the missing letter.

[sir.prize]

Afraid not, factor

[puzzlesRus]

Factor30-I think we would all agree that the compiler may have erred and that the wordplay suggests that the answer was intended to be W RY NESS
(ie Wife+railway+head), were it not for the fact that the clue only allows 6 characters, not 7. However, the only possible legitimate word that will fit and bear some relation to the clue, is WRYEST (WryISH does not seem to appear in any dictionaries that I have looked at).

[sir.prize]

http://www.brital.talktalk.net/crosswords.htm