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The northern man interrupting singers lecture (7,2) ............why is it "Talking to"...can't figure it.....

I'm not convinced, but "The northern" might be T (??), man = king (chess) in alto (singer rather than singers, though.)

T' = the
man on chess board = king
singer = alto

a lecture is a TALKING TO

clue is singer's not singers

T' = "N Eng dialect form of the"

Singer (the clue had 'singer's) is 'alto - so take that out
Talking to - becomes tking. Northerner say (allegedly) 't'shop', 't'pub' etc, using 't' instead of 'the'. So 'tking' is the king (and man can be king, from chess, I think).

I'm rubbish at parsing, but hope this helps!

Ah..the penny drops......sorry about the damned apostrophe.........many thanks everyone.