Mephisto 2525

[JMR27]

Please can anyone help with this? 5d Term wanted for spicy pastry in Greek island (5) SAMO? ...is it Samoa or Samos?

[kayakamina]

Samos - a spicy pastry and Greek Island.

[Quizmonkey]

'Term wanted' means 'miss the end off'. So take the end off samosa to give the answer Samos.

[JMR27]

Good morning K and thank you....term being the end ... so samos(a) doh! regards judy

[Quizmonster]

A spicy pastry is surely a samosa. I wasn't quite sure how a qualified as a 'term', however. Perhaps it's listed as such in the Chambers 2008, which I do not yet have. Alternatively, as K says, maybe a samosa is now also called a samos.
Whatever, I agree the answer is samos.

[Quizmonster]

Ah...a flurry of responses! Only one was here when I started to type.

[JMR27]

Thanks also to Quizmonkey. (I've spent the last hour or so researching Greek pastries....LOL this has not been a good week!)

[Rollo]

Isn't the "A" the "term" needed to convert SAMOS into SAMOSA?

[JMR27]

Thanks to Quizmonster too! term is listed in Chambers (1998) as a limit, boundary (archaic)

[JMR27]

Thanks Rollo

[kayakamina]

Hi Judy

The phone rang and by the time I got back my good friend QM1 had explained all!

Regards K

[JMR27]

Hi K - I feel a complete duffer...fancy missing something so obvious!
I finally got round to watching the TV programme you recommended...the one about cryptic crosswords. Very enjoyable - Tim Moorey is as jolly as I had imagined him to be. I always enjoy his crosswords..... unless Greek pastries are involved.. :o)