Spec2535 Triplets

[lashley]

help please and parsing
11a sad poem which its middle letters spell out 5 E???? epode?
41a roll out the red carpet and burst into tears 5 ????T
also help re unclued--only common feature i can see is they're all 6 letters!also significance of triplets?
thanks

[elliemay1]

11 elegy?

[elliemay1]

41 greet

[yellow11]

thought that but don't get parsing

[elliemay1]

^ greet is a Scottish word meaning to cry

[ProfessorMaisie]

ELOGY (sounds like EL O GEE - middle letters)

[elliemay1]

elegy
middle letters l-e-g sounds like elegy

[ProfessorMaisie]

each unclued has 3 matching letters - tiplets (as usual, doc hasn't made them all unambiguous).

[yellow11]

many thanks

[Farrwest]

Can someone give me a hand here! I have probable answers to two unclued (15d & 20d) but cannot spot the common feature different in all twelve cases. So many of the unclued have a variety of possible answers. What am I missing?

[teacher1]

Farrwest ...... look at Professor Maisie's post above.

[Farrwest]

Thanks teacher1.
My problem is that I can't get my head around twelve common but different features. I must be very dumb so can you enlighten me please.

[teacher1]

My answers to 15d and 20d ? are ..... pop-ups and cyclic. 3 p's and 3 c's ..... hope that's helpful.

[Farrwest]

Thanks teacher1. I think I've finaly got it! I had top-ups instead of pop-ups for 20d which didn't help.

[teacher1]

Have you got the 2 possibilities for 29d?