azed 1821

[judypark]

1 Across Dove in Rome of old? He gets enveloped by hawkish concern whea?

[puzzlemaniac]

Think the answer you are looking for is RHEA.

RA was a sun god represented by a hawk-headed man
Rhea is an ostrich like bird

good luck

[kayakamina]

The solution is definitely 5 letters and I agree with your first 4 Judy.

The answer is almost certainly W he ar...He in War but the Dove part has got me! Surely not the American 'dove' (past tense of dive) ?

Someone will put us out of our misery.

Regards K

[puzzlemaniac]

oops sorry, was interpreting whea? as a 4 letter word in the form of a question.

[judypark]

Sorry, I didn't make that very clear puzzlemaniac. Kayakamina, Unless some bright spark comes up with an alternative I too shall plump for whear, but I wonder if there is a misprint in the clue, it wouldn't be the first time. We shall just have to wait and see.
Regards Judy

[Quizmonster]

I certainly put 'whear' in on the same basis as K. It is, of course, a variant of 'where' and I assumed - though could find no justification - that 'dove' (presumably pronounced doh-vay) was somehow a Latin word for 'where' as well as 'ubi, qua' etc.

[judypark]

Having ploughed through my 40 year old Latin dictionary (knew it would come in useful one day) I could find no link between "dove" or "where" According to Bradfords, hawkish is warlike, insert "he" so whear it must be. Anyway my effort has been popped into the post box tonight.
Kind regards
Judy

[dr john]

See my posting today: 'dove' is modern Italian for 'where', which I think lets Azed off the hook. (Quite a neat clue in fact.) Ciao!

[Quizmonster]

So I wasn't too far out with my guess about 'dove' (doh-vay) meaning 'where' in that part of the world, albeit I did not have it in the right time-frame!