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[Honeydumplin]

12 across I've worked out must be tumultuous (nothing else fits) but can't see how the clue works. Can anyone enlighten me:
"Corporation last month in front of posh house he left disorderly".

Thanks in anticipation

[Lie-in King]

12a Tum-ult-u-(h)ous(e) - 'Corporation' is a pot-belly (tum); ult = ultimo (in the last month); u = upper class (posh) + 'he' leaves 'house'

[BigMac]

This earlier post might help.

[rockfordill]

honeydumplin
I worked out the answer this way - one's 'tum' could be said to be your corporation , 'ult' is always used for last month in correspondence - leastways that is what I use - then take 'he'from house and you get the last three letters ous

QED

[JMR27]

corporation and tum are alternative words meaning stomach, ult is short for ultimo (last month) + u (posh) + ous (house minus he)

[Strix]

Honeydumplin,

The answer is from disorderly so synonym tumultous.

I may be wrong but I worked it out, from the end backwards thus:

The construction insofar as I have it is, "he" left "house" giving you "ous", posh = "u", last month is ult ( as of that ghastly office slang " yours of Friday ult) and Tum must be corporation but not in the sense of a company but as in corpus or corporeal - I think!!!!!!!!

Strix

[Honeydumplin]

Many thanks Lie-in-King. I had no idea that a pot-belly was so called. The rest is easy - when you know how!

[Honeydumplin]

Thanks everyone. Big Mac, the earlier post didn't show up when I checked before submitting, but I think there's something funny happening with either my computer or the site , as a whole swathe of the more recent posts didn't appear on my screen.

[Brooksy]

Try clicking on the "refresh" icon in top Explorer toolbar (2 littlt green arrows chasing themselves. Can`t remember what Firefoxes refresh button looks like.