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[Farrwest]

Despite the answers given to other queries I am still stuck on this one. Can someone please relieve my Monday morning blues by giving me the answer to 13d "police turning up round junction hatch random test (9)"

[Captain2]

Any letters placed Farrwest?

[fiction-factory]

spotcheck

[dannyk13]

Can you parse that FF?

[fiction-factory]

I can see cops backwards and T but not the rest, so maybe not. Unless heck = hatch?

[Captain2]

Can see 'cops' reversed arounf T (junction).... and then.........

[fiction-factory]

Mmm - hatch could be check but that gives a C too many

[fiction-factory]

Unless police are known as OPS

[fiction-factory]

SPO= special police officer?

[Captain2]

Hatch


noun
1.
(Northern English, dialect) a frame for obstructing the passage of fish in a river
Word Origin
C14: variant of hatch ²

[Captain2]

Sorry that should say

Heck

noun
1.
(Northern English, dialect) a frame for obstructing the passage of fish in a river
Word Origin
C14: variant of hatch ²

[fiction-factory]

Thanks Captain

[dannyk13]

Hatch could be heck
Origin of hatch

Middle English small door from Old English hæc, hæ

[dannyk13]

And
Origin and Etymology of hatch
Middle English hache, from Old English hæc; akin to Middle Dutch hecke trapdoo

[fiction-factory]

Yes. Looks good