Observer Everyman 3651

[chokkie]

No-one doing the Obbo everyman today? Stuck on a few ...

4a book, turning brown, about doctor making instrument (8) ?a?r???s

14a gossip at fight involving mad character? (10) ??u???r?o?


13d running van in to pipe (10) ?????e????

26a delight in object reflected in mirror (8) ????n?s?

Many thanks in advance, chox.

[Toorak]

26 gladness - end reversed inside glass

[scorpiojo]

Bagpipes - B(ook) sepia (brown) reversed around GP
C hatter (mad character) box
S camper (van) ing
Gla dne (end/object) ss

[chokkie]

thanks so much, folks - just a few left now ....

17a hair most impkortant according to report (4) m?t?
22d country's leader for now in flowing garment (5) t?n?a

thanks, chox.

[gangesboy]

17 Mane (main)

[Captain2]

To-n-ga

[chokkie]

so, if 17a is "mane", what's 2d: hierarchy secure? Scoff over that (4,5)
f?o? c?a??

I tght t 2d was flow chart, it can't be flow chart if 17a is mane.

Cheers, chox.,

[scorpiojo]

Food chain

[chokkie]

many thanks everyone, for all your help today. All done now. Cheers, chox.

[Cryptomaniac]

I thought exactly like Chokkie, but of course 17 ac must be MANE. However, if 'scoff over' is FOOD ...why? A better solution would be FLOW (turned over is WOLF - to scoff.) But is FLOW CHAIN a known term?

[Mamyalynne]

Scoff - slang for Food

[Lie-in King]

Food chain (hierarchy) - 'chain' (secure) (with) 'food' (scoff, over; above)

[Mamyalynne]

Scoff

noun
noun: scoff
1.
food.
"ice cream was seen as suitable scoff to keep the under-tens quiet"
synonyms: food, fare, eatables, refreshments;

[Cryptomaniac]

Thanks, Mamya. Yes of course FOOD CHAIN fits the definition perfectly. Had only ever thought of scoff as a verb.