AZED 2010

[hankir]

3D: TURNING UP (ON BOARD THE PEQOUD?) TO CALL ON SMALL GROTESQUE FIGURE (5)
Peqoud is italicised. I have MAGO?. Do not understand the reference to Pequod.


6D. Flour (wheat) well mixed? Hew out this Scotch cake maybe (4)
I have FAR? ; Is this a Scottish word?

Thanks in advance

[turast]

3d Anagram of FLOURWHEAT, minus the letters of HEWOUT gives FLRA. The answer is an anagram of this and means a "Scotch cake"

[roslyn251254]

magot is a small grotesque figure

[kayakamina]

Peqoud was the whaleboat in Moby Dick.

TO turn up GAM - whales = MAGOT

[roslyn251254]

K - can you tell me how the title azed 2010 " a score and a half " ties in with the puzzle please. I see 2010 as score(20) and half a score (10) but no more??

[kayakamina]

Hi

I'm bemused too.

The number of the puzzle is 2010 which is a score and a half, and is set in 2010 - but if this is 'a coming of age' I doubt.

Regards.

[petengelda]

I have 'iridosmine ' as the answer to 4 down. I thought it should be an anagram but there's an 'i' for an 'n'. Any ideas why?

[bellabee]

that is the link though as confirmed by first letters of each clue in order.

[kayakamina]

Thanks bellabee.

I just knew there had to be more to it than the 2010.

[hankir]

Thanks for the answer to my 2 clues.

Iridosmine is the anagram after you replace n with i.
Give point (N) for writer (I).

[petengelda]

Ah, thank you. Finished it, though. Now to thing up a clue.

[lashley]

but 4d is 10 letters not nine-also how does magot 3d tie up with earlier reference to joss?

[kayakamina]

9a is Soja ...A JOS(s) <

4d is 10 letters and is an anagram of 'Eros in mind' changing N (point) for i (writer)