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les40 #32

FJ
I took it as a recipe rosalind had found somewhere for "how to boil a pot".

BigBadMarty2 - POST 17

ixion @ 25 with BBM2's @ 17 not far off.

I was taken with pigale@14 and theambler@28 but my vote goes to ixion@25.

Fiery
From a stone age cookbook! Potboilers were once just that- Before pots could be heated directly on the fire, the only way to heat water or cook was to heat stones in the fire and drop them into the water or stew. I tried to make it look a bit old fashioned (!) and hoped there was some misdirection to an anagram which isn't there.

I love aristo's reference to Macbeth (the second best performance I ever saw made "Round about the cauldron go" into a rap) but I would never have solved it. So

Les40 #32

Liked ixion's ref. to Hector B and didn't realise he also had literary work published. However my early leader was chiaroscuro's &littish effort and while many came close nobody really surpassed it.

chiaroscuro #9

lot's of good clues
Good smile after Les @ 32
However I liked the Berlioz spot
Ixion @ 25

Hi IXION @ #25#

Cheers Thea(o)