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themadwomanintheattic

31st August 2025, 11:31
Hello everyone. Please can anyone help with 23a?

What would make goose go in trap? (5)

I have N - O - E

It looks like NOOSE (= trap), but how does the parsing work?
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jono

31st August 2025, 11:40
To make goose into go you would need no ose
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jack aubrey

31st August 2025, 11:43
Not a puzzle I do but if you read noose as two words, that would result in “goose” becoming “go”.
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jack aubrey

31st August 2025, 11:45
Sorry Jono. Crossed!
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themadwomanintheattic

31st August 2025, 12:01
Thanks both. But is OSE even a word (and if it is, what does it mean)? I can't find it in my edition of Chambers.
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jono

31st August 2025, 12:12
I think you just need to think of O S E as a sequence of letters not necessarily a word.
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jack aubrey

31st August 2025, 13:18
It’s in Chambers as a suffix. But as Bugs Bunny was wont to say, “let’s not split hares”. (I’ll get my coat….)
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