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Good Morning Ladies & Gents,

Finished today's cryptic crossword but struggling to understand a couple of the clues and I would very much appreciate an explanation on the following.

Many a strange swaying motion 4 & 4, it's produced by percussion instrument D-u- r-l- It must be drum roll. Roll = swaying???

Poem finished put away 3 & 2 LAY UP To lay up is to put away but where is the poem connection? unless poem (p) is part of up.

Blessings.

Drum Roll...Many (d) a strange (rum) swaying (roll)

d = many strange= rum roll swaying motion
lay is another word for poem up=finished??

Lay as in Lay of the Last Minstrel - at least I hope Scott meant Lay = poem!

chrisg, Sudokulover and Jo,

I am most grateful to the three of you for enlightening me.- thank you very much.

I did not know that d = many. Can now go to the match a happy chappie - let us hope I am just as cheerful on the way home.

Have a lovely day,

Blessings.

Colin just to elaborate...D is a Roman numeral for 500

d is the Roman numeral for 500 - often used in crosswords for "many"

chrisg and AJT,

Got it now - cheers.

Hope it is an omen for the number of goals (many)we will score today.

Blessings