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nonna there are various meanings of cornet 99 is ok

Nonna: cornet is correct for 44. "One" is about "r" in "ct".

Sorry - I do not think that keepnet is the solution to 99 (although I do not have another solution yet).

Am having difficulty with following questions: 21, 33, 62, 71, 88 & 98. Would appreciate a nudge in the right direction.

21 and 33 are both anagrams

McLaren 'simple song' 'thatcher' '50' 'shakespeare'

badger why not?

Thanks Badger4 & Tele4graph for your hints. Will now try to get my head round solving the clues.

I'm like Badger, don't have the answer yet but cannot see how keepnet answers the question...we know what a keepnet does but it isn't exactly suspended over a river....if I don't get anything else though I will put that in.

After all the debate re Q99 I had another look at it last night,I have decided to discard my answer tureens in favour of keepnet.Definition in Chambers for keepnet....A cone shaped net suspended in a river etc.in which fish caught by an angler can keep his fish alive

To repeat earlier comments, I do not think that either "keepnet", "tureens" or "cribble" is the solution to 99.

Why not?

Firstly, none of them gives me that "fits perfectly" feeling. Keepnet is too literal, and it is not suspended OVER a river but IN a river - or lake, or pond, etc. The clues are always too clever for this.

My best thought at the moment is that it is a word for "Hold on to" and/or "catch" straddling a short word for a river (perhaps either "r" or a real river somewhere). Many people have suggested Ure for the river, with "net" and "s" leading them to "tureens" but I am afraid that I find this unconvincing too.

"Cribble" is not a container, as I understand Chambers.

I am sorry to be negative and admit that I may be wrong, given that I do not have an answer to this, my last, clue. It is now difficult to think laterally with these words banging around in my brain!