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[mra1]

Have completed this but am uncertain of my answers to 2 - 4 down Fraser's characters seen in "tin hats" RAIDERS? (R?I?E?S) and 13 across Fielding character SLIP (?L?P) - can anyone confirm or negate?

[frugalfred]

Is this a play on Fielding (author) and fielding in cricket? Is Mrs Slipslop relevant here? Slip is a fielding position in cricket.

[mra1]

Thank you frugalfred - think that would do - thought I had finished but noticed 16 down - proponent of metric system - P?O?OI?T - absolutely no idea - can you help?

[mra1]

Forget 16 down - I realise it is PROSODIST - different kind of metric system to the one I had been thinking of!

[frugalfred]

Yes, I twigged the metrical reference had something to do with poetry/prose rather than centimetres, etc., but couldn't get it.

[mra1]

Any ideas on 4 down? Apart from Raiders the only other word I could come up with is its equivalent Reivers

[mra1]

Incidentally I enquired last week re Bibblebub and was told by Lie-inking that he had last been on the site on 10th January - I do hope he is okay - have you any idea as to his absence - he has always been one of my stalwarts

[Calibax]

^Bibblebub posted two days ago mra
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puzzles/Crosswords/Question1400082.html
Perhaps he's busy or having a break

[mra1]

That's great - was worried in case something was wrong!

[TheFrogman]

George MacDonald Fraser's 'The Steel Bonnets' tells the story of the border reivers, who got their nickname from the metal hats which they wore...

[mra1]

Thank you very much Frogman - plumped for the wrong alternative