Spectator 1868

[appledumplin]

Am getting nowhere fast this week! Help with the following would be much appreciated:

9D Etruscan VIPs in endless love with somebodies (9) ??????n??

19D See poor musician pinching 100 cowberries? (10) ????i?m??s

i know cowberries are also called ligonberries and are related to cranberries but that doesn't help.

[GRM]

8D Definition - 'Etruscan VIPs'.
Wordplay - A three letter colloquial way of spelling 'love' with the last letter removed followed by a three letter word meaning 'with' ( think Latin) followed by ones (= somebodies).

19D 'See' = v followed by an anagram of musician + c (c = 100).

[Tichfield]

9d Lucumones

19d Vaccinimus

[appledumplin]

Thank you both. Why does see = v though? I don't understand that.

[slaney]

V is an abbreviation for vide..Latin for see.

[appledumplin]

Ah, now I understand. Thank you.

[CSIambleside]

19d is VacciniUMs not Vaccinimus

Use your HEAD !

[Tichfield]

CSI, you are quite right of course.

I transposed the two letters when I typed them.

Sorry.

[CSIambleside]

Hope you took no offence, Tichfield, it was just an excuse to give an extra clue.

[Tichfield]

No problem. Two (or more heads) are better than one!

:-))

[logobore1]

19d = vacciniums