my weekly 2351

[shaley]

31a brilliance of man in japanese currency (5) S????

27d How firemen work on the trent (5) S?n??

any help please ?

[Muffet]

31a sheen

[Phil7]

27 - Stoke (check your "n")

[Muffet]

27d could be STOKE if the n is wrong.

[shaley]

thanks to you both

going up in the lift (9) I put elevating giving me the n but I suppose it could be elevation.

I am not sure how the japanese currency fits in with sheen

[08012006]

man = HE
yen used to be SEN

The yen was introduced by the Meiji government in 1870 as a system resembling those in Europe. The yen replaced the complex monetary system of the Edo period, based on the mon. The New Currency Act of 1871 stipulated the adoption of the decimal accounting system of yen (1, 圓), sen (1⁄100, 錢), and rin (1⁄1000, 厘), with the coins being round and cast as in the West. The yen was legally defined as 0.78 troy ounces (24.26 g) of pure silver, or 1.5 grams of pure gold. The same amount of silver is worth about 1181 modern yen,[1] while the same amount of gold is worth about 3572 yen.[2] The Act also moved Japan onto the gold standard. (The sen and the rin were eventually taken out of circulation at the end of 1953. [3])

S he en

[shaley]

thank you for the information