The Generalist

[JoolsTwo]

I am still struggling with this one. Could someone give me the answer for:-

15d Slang for lowest NCO army rank. (9)

Hopefully I will be able to sort out the rest, well I can dream can't I.

[cheaton]

21d is PAEONIC

Lygon was one of the possibilities in the Enigma variation itself so tht is correct.

[cheaton]

21d is PAEONIC and yes, you are right, Lygon is correct - she was an acquaintance of Elgar and thought to be the 'enigma' but this is probably not the case.....

[cheaton]

Sorry, didn't realise my query had gone onto page 2!!

[atoach]

Got it!

(I think)

PAEANIC

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Quintilian/Institutio_Oratoria/9D*.html

... may consist of the feet in which one portion is half as long again as the other, as is the case with paeanic rhythm (a paean being composed of one long followed by three shorts, three shorts followed by one long or with any other arrangement preserving the proportion of three beats to two)...

[atoach]

or, indeed, paeonic.

I dindn't realise we had gone on to page 2 either !

[cheaton]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paeon

atoach - this is where I got my info from... you could well be right as this is the sort of word which can be translated more than one way I suspect!

Off to find a classicist :-))

[JoolsTwo]

Thank you very much atoach and cheaton. That was a real struggle. But I am glad I perservered.

[atoach]

Hmmm...

Going by Google 'hits' PAEAN is hugely more common than PAEON but PAEONIC is rather more common than PAEANIC. Maybe Prospect will accept both.

Just finished it - the Irish bus station one was holding me up. Kicking myself for not seeing it before.

[pega]

Hello JimJools 34a I have Sinclair

36a Nevinson 21d paeonic

If you need anymore will help, have finished crossword but still unsure how to fix in the letters from A - B

[JoolsTwo]

Yes it took a while for that one to sink in for me.

[JoolsTwo]

Sorry that was to atoach.

[JoolsTwo]

Pega the initals just follow round starting from enigma 1at A and follow all the intitals to B. I hope that helps.

[cheaton]

And pega, someone posted them a while ago - sorry, sent mine off already....