There seems to be a fault in this thread, where the first 2 posts on a new page will not not be visible until a 3rd post is added. Just adding one to see.
Mattrom, thanks for your sligthly earlier post about the first two posts on a new page in a thread. That happened to me last week - and when I saw, later, that both my posts had appeared, I felt as if I was hammering home my viewpoint!
I think I've completed this (finally!) but I'm still not sure how 1a parses. My answer is something that opens and shuts and I don't see how the "it" as referenced by Mattrom comes in to it or what "turns" - have I got it wrong?
Flame,
You've probably worked it out by now, as your post wasn't visible for a while. If not, have a look at some examples of the theme words, and think what might happen if elements of them were reversed.
flame - I've not been following this thread since Monday but I thought my hint then was perhaps a little too explicit. There's a word that follows Inspector and precedes code. Then you do reversals of its elements. The words you end up with are far removed from the originals.