Rhyming Quiz

[needle2]

4b)Far from sweet German Red causes decay(3,3)
I've got dry rot, doesen't rhym with malice aforethought.
think I might be on the rong track.

[glasman]

Dry rot

[vakayu]

gut rot

[glasman]

Sorry, didn't read fully- Far from sweet - dry
- German red - rot

[vakayu]

ignore mine

[Tilly2]

Your 'malice aforethought' must be wrong.

[needle2]

Thanks all.but what would criminal intent (6,12), be

[boxtops]

any letters so far?

[glasman]

'Malice aforethought' must be right?

[boxtops]

Malice aforethought is a possibility?

[bookbinder]

A German speaker would pronounce 'rot' as 'rote', with a longer vowel sound than in the English word (dry) 'rot'. The quiz setter intends the solver to read 'rot' as 'rote', thus forcing it (in my opinion) to rhyme - more or less - with aforethought. Not a well-written clue.