The Times 28214

[TioMateo]

3 x parsing queries :- 1) Making call, I land (5) I?D?A Looks like INDIA (land?), but don't get the rest. 2) Art working for a while perhaps to create a storm? (7) T?M?E?T. Looks like TEMPEST. I get TEMP = "working for a while", and TEMPEST = "storm", but where do "Art" and EST fit in? 3) Fetching gift from cleaner's mother (8) ?H?R?S?A. Looks like CHARISMA ("Fetching gift") and "cleaner's mother" = CHAR'S MA, but where does the I come from? TIA.

[Captain2]

3 Cleaner's = Cleaner is, so = Char is + ma?

[Captain2]

1 Making call 'I' in NATO phonetic alphabet = INDIA

[bobbinwales]

Art as in who art in heaven... means who Is in heaven. French for is is EST

[bobbinwales]

Ok maybe not...not French indication in clue.

[TioMateo]

Thanks, Captain2, for both of those - I get them. Sorry, bobbinwales, I don't accept the "French" (not mentioned in the clue) connection at all. Furthermore, thou art in French would be Tu es, not Tu est. Can anybody else shine a better light on this?

[goodgoalie]

Cleaner IS ma - char is ma

[goodgoalie]

'Art' is an old English form of 'are', as in 'thou art'. So in old English you might say 'thou tempest'. Pretty convoluted, though.

[TioMateo]

Many thanks, goodgoalie. I suspect you're right, and agree that it be very convoluted.