Attending a function far out of the city meant I could not return home in time to post the answer last night.
So I am posting it now.
Yesterday's clue:
Fretful to lift the fretted instrument upwards in palpitation (8)
Its solution: PETULANT = LUTE + PANT
Here is the page with the list of solvers.
Yesterday's clue:
Fretful to lift the fretted instrument upwards in palpitation (8)
Its solution: PETULANT = LUTE + PANT
Here is the page with the list of solvers.
Comments
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A *lute* is an old-fashioned stringed instrument that looks like a small, pear-shaped guitar.
_The lute appears in many of Shakespeare's plays_ .
It may be either fretted or unfretted.
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*pant*
*verb*
breathe with short, quick breaths, typically from exertion or excitement.
*noun*
a short, quick breath.
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_Fretful to lift the fretted instrument upwards in palpitation (8)_
_palpitation_
= *pant*
_fretted instrument_
= *lute*
_to lift upwards_
= _indicator to reverse the word *lute*_
= *lute --> etul*
_in palpitation_
= _to place *etul* inside *pant*_
= *Petulant*
= _Fretful_
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*Sometimes*
_We splash our thoughts_
_on invisible walls,_
_or scratch them in quicksand and say,_
_‘look_
_see what time and_
_a certain *fretfulness*_
_has made me do!’_
_It is *petulant,*_
_It is childish,_
_sometimes it is poetry. ..._
(Eric Ashford )
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