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I've been toying over this for a while.

17a) Resentment of female boomer? (10) - I - T - R - E - S

I'm thinking Bitterness with 'ess' denoting female but can't find the link with Boomer = Bittern.
Checked in the Chambers and their is no ref to a boomer being a bird, the only creature link is a kind of Kangaroo.
Have you guys got any ideas. Cheers

Les
Is the call of a bittern known as a boom ?

Thanks google!

http://www.birdsofbritain.co.uk/bird-guide/bittern.asp

Bittern
Publication in 1930 of Bernard Riviere's magnum opus 'A History of the Birds of Norfolk' marked the commencement of almost three decades of steady increase in the numbers of the skulking and ever secretive bittern. During this period despite sea-flooding and a succession of severe winters booming males reached a peak in the mid 1950s. At that time the county population was of the order of 60 booming males.

It is now known that each boomer has his own distinctive voice. This discovery would have been invaluable all those years ago in assessing the true numbers.

I'm impressed
Thanks for that excellent nugget of information

Thanks a lot,
Les40