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Meant sauce/source of course. (Just had to be an anagram there!)

Grunger, thanks. Yes, I fully expected the homophone to work for some people, some parts of the country - but it doesn't work for me personally!


I agree with you about It/Appeal. I know it's valid in that it's in Chambers - but it is just so, so dated and unimaginative!

Everyman loves a dropped H, yesterday.. eyeball for highball

On the subject of IT, today in the G it=vermouth was new to me but I’ll give it a try

Jigjag,

Thanks. I'd hoped my initial jocular comment would elicit something like 'Sorry, guys, I forgot about all those queries' from the OP. I wasn't expecting to be called a bully!

Jono

IT/Italian vermouth used to crop up in crosswords often too. I wasn't disappointed when it faded away a bit! (That might be because I have never heard anyone ask for a 'gin and It', or anything similar - it seems to hark back to David Niven or James Bond to me.)

Jono.
Thanks for parsing the Everyman clue.
I know where the Queen Vic is but don't watch Eastenders or know much about cocktails!
I had the answer from the definition.

I did say on the Everyman thread that I thought the EYEBALLS clue was awful.

I've also quoted Shaw's "Man and Superman". Jack Tanner, the central character, has a Cockney chauffeur called "Henry Straker". Tanner introduces him to a friend as 'Enry". "No sir" Straker says "that would be Henery!".

Good luck ordering a highball anywhere in the East End!

...or a ‘Gin and It’ for that matter

Paul

I agree with Malone that SA/It is so dated. I have never heard either used, except in crosswords. I have worn pasties, but prefer to eat them.