Azed 2016

[mullingar]

Can anyone explain the wordplay for 30across Mid point of suture sewn up as in half cut. The answer is nasion but knowing how particular Azed is with his wording I can't quite get the clue to work.

[mike11111]

Seems to me to be an anagram of as in + on (i.e. on the way to getting drunk, half-cut).

[mullingar]

mmm not quite up to his usual exactitude if that's right Mike. Thanks

[mike11111]

I don't know. Nasion is defined as the mid point of a suture. Sewn up suggests an anagram, as above. One of the definitions of ON in Chambers is preparatory to getting drunk, for which a synonym is half-cut, so it all seems to fit for me.

[mullingar]

Do you think sewn up suggests an anagram or one thing inside another and reversed?

[mike11111]

I think anagram. One of the definitions of sew up in Chambers is to nonplus (also to make drunk, which may or not be an allusion to half-cut).

[mullingar]

Ok then I am satisfied now. I hadn't come across the definition of sew up as nonplus or make drunk. Thank you for your attention.I'm obliged as they used to say in Westerns

[mike11111]

Missin' ya already, now! :-)