Saturday February 8Th 2020

[hopelessinit]

Term for thick, ancient headless mug! Sadly misrepresented 4,6. K?N? C?N?T?
Thanks for help

[Mamyalynne]

King Canute

[dannyk13]

King Canute?

[hopelessinit]

Explain please

[Mamyalynne]

K + ancient + (m)ug anag

Not sure how we are getting the K

[Mamyalynne]

Terminus for thick may work, but....

[hopelessinit]

I must be thick but see no logic to clue?

[Mamyalynne]

Which publication is it?

Any theme or special instructions?

[hopelessinit]

The week -normal cryptic clue. I have all the rest. Just cannot relate king Canute to the clue though I did get the anagram part. But thanks.

[Mamyalynne]

Term can mean Terminus in architecture , gives us the K.

Canute was often misunderstood/misrepresented.

//In the story, Canute demonstrates to his flattering courtiers that he has no control over the elements (the incoming tide), explaining that secular power is vain compared to the supreme power of God. The episode is frequently alluded to in contexts where the futility of "trying to stop the tide" of an inexorable event is pointed out, but usually misrepresenting Canute as believing he had supernatural powers, when Huntingdon's story in fact relates the opposite.//

eg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Canute_and_the_tide

[hopelessinit]

Gotcha ,! Thanks