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brendan

10th August 2012, 19:02
Poet and novelist(5) - ELIOT (T.S.) but what's the parsing?

US men wear it loosely interlocked? Lord No! -NECKTIE but why 'US men' and 'Lord No'
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paul

10th August 2012, 19:05
Necktie = anag interlocked minus lord
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jws

10th August 2012, 19:05
hi Brendan, is this meant to be cryptic? T S Eliot was a poet and a novelist
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trevor

10th August 2012, 19:05
interlocked minus the letters L.O.R.D gives an anagram.
is is an Americanism for what we would just call a tie??
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pastille

10th August 2012, 19:07
Not worn by red necks....methinks....
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brendan

10th August 2012, 19:07
Thank's guy's. Yes JWS, it's cryptic, .
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trevor

10th August 2012, 19:09
Brendan, have you given the whole clue?
somebody answered Eliot as being Eli - a character from the OT (old testament)
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mamya

10th August 2012, 19:09
T S Eliot and George Eliot ?
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brendan

10th August 2012, 19:12
Yes, that's the whole clue. Maybe it is ELI and OT or as Mamya says, George and T. S. Eliot.
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trevor

10th August 2012, 19:14
re, my previous post, probably just coincidence.
Mamyas looking good.(as ever)
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