Can you solve this clue? – 11

We had a good response to yesterday’s teaser. Once again, 21 people managed to register their right answers in the blog – A few new names in the list – Welcome to the blog if it is your first time here:)

Congrats to Camelia Oberoi (our first one in – nice come back :), Sandhya Paruchuri, Iis Venky, Raghavan S V, Srividya Ravi, Viveca Bhatkal, Joy Bhattacharjya, Guruswamy Nataraj, Samit Kallianpur, Raju Umamaheswar, Arvind Ramaswamy, Jawahar, Mark Pat Joe Bill Dinosaur who was previously called Walpurgis(!!- sometimes we have to crack more than clues here), Prakash Arumugam, Paddy Craven, Koteswara Rao, Mohan Subramaniam, Venkatraghavan S, Sohil, John Chute (yup, you’re right – we ARE wicked;)) and P.B.Padmanabhan.

Arjun Mukherjee who posted “windbags” was close but no cigar. Vaidehi posted “Clutches” and got it wrong. Better luck with the next question Arjun and Vaidehi.

The Clue was “Spooner would say tie together old women’s purses (8)”. The Answer was “HANDBAGS”. This is a “Spoonerism” clue, which is one of the rarer clue types seen in crosswords. Here,  you need to interchange the first syllables (like Spooner would) of  “BAND” which means “tie together” and HAGS (Gulp, for “old women”) to get HAND BAGS.

The definition is  “purses” which is a direct synonym. Once again, well done to each of you who not only solved it but also annotated it correctly in our blog post. Now, Can you solve THIS clue?