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15d Nonsense in short he had entered e.g.; preposterously (4) If my other answers are correct I have ?ULP

I can only find GULP PULP or TULP, but I just don't get the clue at all.

must be PULP = rubbish = nonsense, although rest of clue is obscure

I'm sure I'll plump for PULP - but the clue certainly does look obscure.

The reasoning behind this has driven me mad as well. I imagine (perhaps wrongly) it's something to do with the 'rare' definition of preposterously given by Chambers: "literally inverted, having or putting the last first".

I'm still none the wiser. Perhaps someone else will be.

I just looked at Answerbank - same queries there, but someone had replied that "he had entered" was pluperfect tense - plup - for short, and that was entered "preposterously". I've been doing Mephisto for over thity years, but Paul McKenna's clues and reasoning are so obscure, and without wit, that I sometimes feel I won't bother with his anymore.

I gave up. I don't mind giving the brain a good wok-out, but sometimes it can be a bit too obscure.

I fear the 'pluperfect' explanation is probably correct. As you say, AJT, humourless and obscure to the point of unfairness in my opinion.

Hi Bathtub - Let's hope he reaads this site.

Oh, and by the way, talking of obscure - 7 d inksac -it had to be, nothing else fitted, but where as the definition?

Re7d Inksac Mr McKenna took obscurity to extremes!

Squid use their ink as an escape to confuse predators. If he has clued this as 'get-away vehicle' then I give in!

The word play I can follow-
IN (belonging to) KSAR (despot/tsar) C(aught) for R(ight) off

INK SA(R)C