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There's what looks to be an excellent ALPHABETICAL PUZZLE in today's Guardian.

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2011/11/01/25484.pdf

Just finished it - easier, I think, than his usual alphabet puzzles

I'm just working on it - i like these too - fitting the clues in suits my mathematical mind!

How is YARE to be explained? Swiftly,yes;then River Yar + E(ast) or what?

There is a River Yare which is navigable,on the Broads.

Many thanks, Jazzgirl: not marked in my atlas! Happy sailing!

One of the meanings of "yare" according to Chambers, is "easily managed" I remember from aeons ago a film (what was its name?) in which Bing Crosby, on honeymoon with Grace Kelly on his yacht, saying "It's a yare boat".

Was that High Society (1956)?

Yes, it was, of course. Thanks, greedy kite Found yourself in Araucaria?

Yup!