Times Jumbo 803

[kalahari12]

28 ac: Smell smoke? Attic's spared initially (4) R?E?
I have reek (= smell) but I can not match it to the attic etc. Any suggestions please?

[baitress]

remove the first letter from greek(attic)

[kayakamina]

Greek - Attic... not initially = REEK (smell )

[Beatrice35]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Attic

Think the above may help too kalahari :-)
Warmest wishes to lovely Baitress, too, good to see you here :-) Ciao, Beatrice :-)

[kalahari12]

Apologies for the tardy response as I got jobbed to help my nephew with his lego technik. Nightmare!!! Thanks to you all for the clarifications of the clue. It feels wonderful to have one's ignorance reduced!!! :o)

[kalahari12]

Apologies for the tardy response as I was jobbed to help my nephew with his lego technik. Nightmare!!!
Thanks for the clarifications on the clue. It is wonderful having all you good folk out there willing and able to reduce one's ignorance! :o)

[kalahari12]

Apologies for the tardy response. Thanks for the clarifications.

[kalahari12]

Thanks to you all!