December 19 2011
Word of the Week: Clerisy
CLERISY [KLER-uh-see] – class of learned persons; intelligentsia [From German Klerisei, clergy] Serial guests on Q&A can be viewed as members of the Australian clerisy.
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December 19 2011
CLERISY [KLER-uh-see] – class of learned persons; intelligentsia [From German Klerisei, clergy] Serial guests on Q&A can be viewed as members of the Australian clerisy.
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Criseyde — 19 December at 07:09AM
Sly Eric recrafted "Dabblers". :)
TT — 19 December at 07:09AM
I'd never heard of this word, until Saturday, when I read it in a Hitchens article.
Criseyde — 19 December at 07:21AM
DAbblers, sic, rely on rearrangement?
Criseyde — 19 December at 07:32AM
Cherry, pitted inside, riles - upset Hitchens for example.
RM — 19 December at 08:48AM
People who think the French Right is candy coated.
RobT — 19 December at 09:56AM
Bemused Criseyde left in/out of French class
RobT — 19 December at 10:29AM
Cub edges out of fit bicyclers' peloton
Boniface — 19 December at 10:35AM
Clergy is for God's principal eggheads (7)
RobT — 19 December at 10:37AM
Conventicler is yet to be admitted!
Criseyde — 19 December at 10:50AM
Ha ha RobT. I did see the possibilities but have been silly enough for one day. Neat following RM's goodie. Good to see you're back on your bike again pedalling Cadel gems.
Fun thread developing here... would be good to keep it going, but have to drop out and send some cards and clean the barbecue.
RobT — 19 December at 11:11AM
Medleying Rice yells odd mess
Sam — 19 December at 01:10PM
Mensa Club lies right within city limits
RK — 19 December at 01:38PM
The well-informed Dickens spy concealed revolutionary father
RobT — 19 December at 01:53PM
Society relics? Absolutely Fabulous!
AC — 19 December at 06:22PM
Mental clarity at Einsteinium swap meet?
Boniface — 20 December at 12:18AM
Singer's lot: bad lyrics and limitless sex?
DA2 — 20 December at 09:45AM
Boniface (aka Aerogard) take good heart. You may not have scooped the Stormathon, but your clerisy clues is for the ages. Sublime.
And for those a tad at sea, think Peter Singer, rather than the Bieber. So good I have setter's envy.
DA2 — 20 December at 09:46AM
Make that clue singular (for a singular clue)
AC — 20 December at 10:43AM
How do you get the 'e' for the wordplay? Limitless sex mystifies me (not sure of its use in the clue either).
JD — 20 December at 11:18AM
AC - Sex without the letters on the outer limits (S, and X) leaves E.
JPR — 20 December at 07:15PM
[sorry,as a Bonophile, but Singer's lot for = clerisy def is a bit of a stretch???]
how about
Smart Men From UNCLE rib Solo? Yes to start with