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Dave Baker

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From: "Dave Baker" <N...@null.com>

Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 00:07:45 +0100

Local: Wed, May 14 2008 7:07 pm

Subject: Re: Nation Puzzle No. 3127 -- Need help!

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"Flying Tortoise" <purple....@googlemail.com> wrote in message

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On May 14, 10:49 pm, "Dave Baker" <N...@null.com> wrote:

> "Flying Tortoise" <purple....@googlemail.com> wrote in message

> news:8be386a5-3acc-4bfd-86f2-afe83be845a4@m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
> On May 14, 10:45 pm, Jordan <jc...@earthlink.net> wrote:

> > 28 Across:

> > What one peels with steady and astute watchfulness (7,3)

> > _E_T_E_EYE

> >Not surprised! One peels both eyes surely?

> The phrase works as commonly in the singular, "keep an eye peeled", as in
> the plural I think and the phrase "keep a weather eye out" is certainly
> singular.

> > And I can't see 'steady' as
> >having anything to do with the first word. For the answer, I suggest
> >looking out of the nearest window for what might be different today
> >than it was yesterday (or not, if you live in LA!)

> "Steady and astute watchfullness" is just the definition, if a little
> verbose, of keeping a weather eye out for something. You could as easily
> delete 'steady and'.
>If that's the case where is the wordplay for 'weather'? I still doubt

that one could ever have a singular eye peeled

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/keep_an_eye_peeled

It's also a singular phrase when used as "keep an eye out".

>but I'm absolutely

certain that nobody ever peeled a 'weather eye'! The wordplay is
surely EYE (what one peels) with WEATHER (steady). The 'steady' I
therefore take to be intended to indicate WEATHER, probably in the
sense of 'weathering the storm', an intent in which it fails.

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