Vitai Lampada

[smouse]

The clues for 3 answers run into one another with the odd extra conjunction so it isnt easy to give exact clues but here goes

everyday but sunday - - -ADA-

remoteness - - - GIN- - - - -

a ridge of windblown sand - - - DAN-

grasping - - MBL- - -

Highland axe - - - HAB-

superior - - - CHL- - -

two of these are to be found in Weston super mare - - - HEN-

Got some more but am sure thats enough to be going on with

[mike b]

Can't quite see the format, but highland axe has got to be Lochaber. Are all the letters and blanks correct, as the first one looks like workaday. Weston has two piers, so could be something like pierhead or pierend; superior possibly matchless. Perhaps you could give us a fuller extract?

[smouse]

No I have it right so cant be workaday and neither of the pier ones fit

Thanks for the other 2

Here is an example

who has a vinyard near to Cape Cod, did all kinds of work to act as a peacemaker between the two parties

answer

Martha Factotum Intercede

so you can see the three lots of clues sort of roll together and you have to separate it into 3 answers

so this is for the everday one

everyday but Sunday he'd fish in the late at the base of the Eyre Peninsula

answers _ _ _ A D A _ _ _ _ _ I S E _ _ _ and I've got the last bit Gairdner

and heres another

Rose Bay when he had a wall built to the norht of his cabbage patch where..

_ _ _ A N D _ _ Hadrian _ _ _ L Y A _ _

Hope thats clearer

[mike b]

Cabbage patch is kailyard

[mike b]

Rose bay is oleander

[smouse]

Youre doing a great job Mike do you want any more yet - lol

[mike b]

Weston-s-M is hyphens!

[smouse]

Now that was very clever - how come you never see the obvious

Later I will start a new thread with some more but thanks for all your help

[mike b]

blown sand = yardang

[juliely]

smouse, I am glad to see someone else struggling with this quiz. It is a stinker, I haven't done this one before and am wishing I hadn't started it.
Good luck
Julie.

[Heaton]

line 5, page 1 Demoiselle. Gairdner is correct.

[Elizabetha]

I tried posting this on another occasion but it seems to have vanished so apologies if I'm repeating myself...Can anyone help with line 40? "a,b and c or d is a sound." The patterns are :

E?ryt????? d???str???

[smouse]

I answered on my other question so hope you see this one

Do you want the answer or just a clue

[Elizabetha]

thanks - I can't seem to get onto the other thread for some reason. Well - I'd better come clean and say time is getting on and ideally I'd like the answers!

[smouse]

a band, a chord, if that doesnt help I'll put you out of your misery later - lol

[Elizabetha]

Well I was working on the band idea but can't see for the life of me why the clue fits it! And would the chord be downstroke?

[smouse]

drawstring

[Elizabetha]

But how is drawstring a sound? Or have I got the wrong part of the clue?

[smouse]

draw�string ( dr� ' strĭng ' ) n. A cord

[bluetit]

the word sound is part of the clue to 40c

[Elizabetha]

Ah - duh! I've finally seen the light! Thanks for the help!