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10a) Understand how door is locked (5, 2) ?A?C? O?

Latch on or catch on

Latch On

Many thanks Dandelion

I would say the door is on the latch rather than the door is on the catch

Sorry to disappoint you, but the answer expected when you enter the puzzle online is CATCH ON.

I put LATCH ON as well, but it was flagged as an error.

I would think that they will have to accept either answer.

I did this this morning and realized that it could be both.Surely to latch on is to accompany and not understand.

it can also mean - understand.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/latch+on

I would have gone for Catch... i guess it is regional.

copy and paste the whole link - it needs the "+ on" bit to work.

thanks trevor,I see it is a last entry so it probably can be construed as"understand" but I sent it off with catch on.

Chambers Thesaurus has the following entries for "get the message"

understand, comprehend, take in, follow, see, grasp

colloquial get it, get the point, get the picture, get the idea, get the hang, catch the drift, catch on, latch on, cotton on (to), tumble to, twig