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I see Chambers does give two ways of pronouncing floor, but Collins and the OED only give the flaw variety.

Thanks Orson, Mathprofrockstar... and everyone else.

Yes, Floor pronounced the Scottish (and northern England and who knows where else) way is completely valid, it's not an exotic sub-species!

I suppose I had a similar reaction (as in 'no, floor/flaw is the correct one') when a Times crossword gave Earn and Urn as soundalikes. I was quite indignant, until I read the pronunciation notes in Chambers.

Malone

What do you think of this clue (non-cryptic) from the Mail?

Fried egg dish (8)

I could not think of any dishes involving fried eggs, but I got it eventually. Do you think it is accurate?

Well, it is cooked in a frying pan (though we finish it under a grill)...

chrisE

Yes, thanks, but does that mean that anything cooked in a frying-pan can be described as fried? I cook curries in a frying-pan, but would not call them fried dishes.

Grunger

I think the clue is accurate. If it had been "Fried-egg dish", then I would say it is wrong. I think the hyphen makes the difference.

I think that if you put oil in a frying pan and then cook something in it, you are frying it. Frying doesn't necessarily have to be rapid. I do a spiced flattened chicken breast, which I cook on minimum gas on each side for 4 minutes, then 1 minute on each side on maximum.

Grunger, I think your egg clue is odd for a non-cryptic puzzle. Here's one for you and other PU members...

Win the Ashes perhaps, did you say? (4)

Yes, I managed to work it out...

malone@192

I expect you sound the r in both those homophones, so the clue works for you, just as it does for me for whom the r is silent in both words.

I haven't a clue about the fried egg dish - well, obviously I do have a clue, but no idea of the answer. Give me cryptic any time.