A Conversation for How to Solve 'The Times' Crossword

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Post 21

Icy North

Not that. Maybe try the wordplay. What else could Do mean?


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Post 22

Recumbentman

A do is a party. Go to?

Let's go ahead and spoil the other one -- Keats and Yeats rhyme, but don't. A nice clue.


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Post 23

Icy North

No, nothing to do with parties.

'It' can have other meanings, too...


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Post 24

Recumbentman

As in the IT Crowd?


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Post 25

Icy North

Nope .

I told you this was obscure.


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Post 26

Recumbentman

It is also Italian vermouth. A fat lot of help that is.


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Post 27

Icy North

This is a meaning of 'it' which was more common in the post-war years, I'd reckon. Maybe up to the 1970s at latest.

The meaning of 'Do' is similarly becoming less common, but it's well-known.


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