AH yes TOI.Ĥ1A VILLAIN EDIT? DNK, but perps rule. SARDONIC finally broke the ice with _O_ and I knew it wasn't German, but FRENCH. And thank you Husker for another elucidating review.ġ8A ROTC Hand up for OPEC at first and ADA was too short.ġ9A SPOTWELDING is something that APHRODITE's consort (14A) probably would have done, had the technology existed in olden times.Ģ5A METZ sounded Deutsch to me, but I couldn't get DER?, DIE? DAS?, to work with any 12Ds I could think of. Thank you Matthew for a very interesting puzzle and a rare Saturday FIR fer me. Martthew obviously put a lot of work into composing this puzzle, so thank you very much for the excursion. Heard lots of 'REET' (reed) stories as a kid.) (Many of the homes in my parents' home town in southern Schleswig still had thatched roofs in 1965 as did my aunt's where we stayed. THATCH - German Reetdach (reed cover (deck)). Metz - Is in Lorraine, France, despite its German name. wanted DDS'S, but then remembered a common past puzzle clue for ROTC.ĮRIE - Remembered this clue from previous puzzles. Finally thought SARDONIC seemed to perp and it satisfied the clue as well as I could remember and finished with DISCS/DATA. Really enjoyed this one, but thought I would come up short in the NE. The solve gradually bloomed out in Silkie fashion as D-O described. Started off with a sea of white but jumped in with ALPINE LAKE and ST BEDE.
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