Tls 1127

[highbury57]

Ground to a halt. Kick start needed.
Who the 'eck will Ron Glum marry? An old African (7) E******
A learner with a car-a happy man apparently(8) L*******
I am not sure how literary the answers might be. The bottom half of the solution which I have got is for from consistent. Over to those with brains....

[highbury57]

Clue is The Unjust Man or Women in Dawood's translation

[Mamyalynne]

4 The Unjust Man or Women in Dawood's translation (4)


^ Their capital letters

[Mamyalynne]

I presume that is the title/subject of a chapter/Sura within the Koran.

[highbury57]

A somewhat niche clue and even more recherche answer?

[Jackdaw33]

Regarding Ethiope. I typed eth???? into the Chambers Word Wizard. Ethiope was not listed.There was a word 'ethiops'. When I typed it into the search box it said 'no entries found'. I find that strange as it is the same dictionary.

[highbury57]

I think Ethiope is right but the confusion is unsurprising with the setter.

[scorpiojo]

http://al-quran.info/#83:6

[Mamyalynne]

Chambers in print doesn't have the 'Ethiope' variant either.


http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/ethiop

[scorpiojo]

The surah is also known as The Cheats, The Dealing in Fraud, The Defrauders, The Stinters, The Unjust, Those who Give Short Measure

[highbury57]

Ethiope is given as a variant at Dictionary Browse

[Jackdaw33]

My point is, ethiops is listed, why 'no entry' when I type that in the search box?

[salveMe]

Okay, thank you. I guess it is that sura, but quite how the clue parses is still beyond me. 'women' doesn't seem to fit at all. I eventually stopped searching online because some of my searches were pointing me to the sort of websites that get you on a watchlist!

[highbury57]

An email to the TLS....

[highbury57]

Broteas was the son of Tantalus.

[Telescoper]

"The Unjust" (83), "Man" (76) and "Women" (4) are each a title of a Sura in the Dawood translation.