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[karfis]

21a - Reach it, playing an instrument - think the answer is cithara but this does not contain the e from reach - any ideas?

[scorpiojo]

http://www.cithera.ca

[scorpiojo]

Sorry, ignore that ^

[dannyk13]

Cithare is the French equivalent if this helps.

[vakayu]

cithara

[aelmpvw]

cithare

[mac44]

Has to end in A Danny, Student deserved to be educated - L earned, I think it has to be cithara, setters mistake?

[dannyk13]

Probably is Mac.

[vakayu]

Agree mac has to fit with learned and tread the boards

[dannyk13]

It would have helped if OP had given letter pattern.

[aelmpvw]

certhia?

[vakayu]

c?t?a?a

[mac44]

Has to be C?T?A?A aelmpvw.

[aelmpvw]

ok, i'll give up :-)

[Scothern20]

Thanks to everyone for their help. It would appear that the answer CITHARA
can also be spelled .with a letter K instead of C

[paddywak]

cithara
n an ancient Greek musical instrument differing from the lyre in its flat shallow sound chest.
[L, from Gr kithar\-a; cf guitar, zither]
citharist n a player on it.
citharistic adj.
cither, cithern or cittern n an early modern metal-stringed musical instrument similar to the lute, played either with a plectrum or with the fingers; the Tyrolese zither.

\u00A9 Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd: The Chambers Dictionary 2003; The Chambers Thesaurus 2004