Polymath 481

[safflower]

14a The set of the inflected forms of a word (8)?
- - a - i - m
7d A very small computer (7)? p - l - t - -.
25d Half-dead; dejected (7)? a - - - o - t.

Not doing well at all today.

[Rollo]

7d Palmtop

[mac44]

7d. Palmtop

[Rollo]

25d Alamort

[Rollo]

14a Paradigm

[factor-fiction]

why "paradigm"?

[Rollo]

Because paradigm is a noun meaning " a set of inflected forms of a word in grammar".

[safflower]

Thank you mac44 and Rollo. I'll see how I get on now.

[factor-fiction]

Well it didn't fit the letter pattern that was given:
- - a - i - m

I hadn't come across this meaning before. I only ever came across the word paradigm as meaning:

" A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline". Paradigm shifts etc

[Rollo]

Well it didn't fit the letter pattern that was given:
- - a - i - m


It was an 8 letter word, according to the question. So I assumed that there was a missing "-" somewhere.

[johnholman]

try a PALMTOP