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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.

Comments

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

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