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[racoony]

Please help with 26 across.Clue is:End has fallen off gas pipe, he noted.8 letters.
I have C?A?R?E?.Many thanks.

[dannyk13]

Chabrier - cha(t) + brier(pipe)

[Svejk]

Chabrier

[shoota]

Sure you are right (Emanuel Chabrier - 19th century French composer) but surely it is a briAr pipe?

[racoony]

That was quick! Much appreciated.

[dannyk13]

Shoota:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brier

[shoota]

I accept that 'brier' is an alternative spelling of 'briar' but coming from a line of pipe smokers (and having a few myself) never have I seen a pipe referred to as a 'brier pipe'.

[dannyk13]

Definition of brier in American English in Oxford dictionary. ... 1 (also brier pipe) A tobacco pipe made from nodules borne at ground level by a large woody plant .

[Mamyalynne]

bri•er2 or bri•ar (ˈbraɪ ər)

n.
1. the white heath, Erica arborea, of France and Corsica, the woody root of which is used for making tobacco pipes.
2. a pipe made of brierroot.

[dannyk13]

Thanks for the confirmation Lynne :-)

[shoota]

Ah, American English....