Now, shall we go back to our original example and see what we can make of it with what we now know?
“Accountant adds fifty-one and a hundred and arrives at nothing, materially”
We had already dissected it into five elements:
Accountant / adds fifty-one / and a hundred / and arrives at nothing, / materially
Let’s analyse each element in turn:
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Accountant |
CA – a standard abbreviation (Chartered Accountant). |
| adds | just a linking word - but it does suggest that the elements should be appended to each other as they are worked out. |
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fifty-one |
LI – 51 in Roman numerals. |
| and | linking - still suggesting appending the elements. |
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a hundred |
C – another Roman numeral. |
| and arrives at | linking - but it also suggests that the next element is the last, and that any further elements are the definition, or at least that they relate to the whole word. |
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nothing |
O – nothing; a very popular one, this! |
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materially |
the definition: CA + LI + C + O |
So the answer is CALICO - which is a material.
Are you getting the hang of it?
Now we’ll try a real crossword together.
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