Everyman 3152

[Argee2]

1 dn. Biblical character very good graduate raised (4) A?O?
Amok? Amos?

[YvonneM]

AMOS backwards is SO MA MA standing for master degreee

[kayakamina]

Amos......Ma < Outstanding Os

[Argee2]

Thank you..Yvonnem. I realise the MA is graduate but why is SO very good?

[Argee2]

Ah, there you are, K. I knew you would know!!
I am not sure about 8 down. Don hit, then treated (3,7). G?T?R?S?E? Get (got) dressed? Why?

[YvonneM]

e.g if you say something is wonderful its OK but if you say it is so wonderful its more than OK

[kayakamina]

Argee there is a Mafia Don (at present in jail ) called Gotti !

[Argee2]

Oh, K, I have led such a sheltered life!! Thank you. I can send it off now and maybe win a �15 book token. I will try not to let it change my life.

[crofter]

Argee2 I think the answer is GET DRESSED and I also think that it's got nothing to do with a Mafia Don!

Don (clothes) = Get Dressed
Get (hit) as in "GET CARTER"
Treated = Dressed (as in a wound)

Anyway, that's what I think!

[kayakamina]

Crofter and Argee I think I watch too many 'Godfather' films!

All those Dons and hit-men.

[crofter]

K ~ that was done with such style! Hey "GET CARTER" was a pretty violent film as well!

The Amos / Amok debate is trickier still. I even had to check that Amok was truly a Biblical character!

On balance I go for AMOK and the wordplay is as follows:
very good graduate = excellent master of art
= knockout MA = KOMA (raised) <<< = AMOK

I'm going on the order of the words in the clue and the quality of Everyman. What d'ya think?

[kayakamina]

I hadn't even considered Amok as I immediately thought of the Book Of Amos in the Old Testament.
I also ,on balance,like the o/s (outstanding) part of the solution.

Cheers K

[Argee2]

Thank you K and crofter. I have just come back from the pub quiz (no, we did not win) and seen your further answers. It was because I could not decide between Amos and Amok that I posed the question. Sorry, K, but I am going with crofter on this occasion. After all, there is that book token at stake - I won it once many years ago and bought a new Chamber's with it. :-)

[crofter]

Argee2 Please come back to us with the chosen name once the solutions are published. That will be the acid test!

[crofter]

Argee2 ~ I am about to go out for my Pub Quiz, where I am the quizmaster! Once every three months it falls to me!