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16d "Who mixed colour to make trouble" (3-3-2)
?O? - D?E - ?O

Any help much appreciated

HOW-D'YE-DO

Those cheeky apostrophes again!

I had trouble with the exact parsing but I think DYE is the mixed colour and DO is make.

Sorry, DYE is the colour and mixed shows the anagram of WHO.

Thanks paulhabershon; this parsing makes sense but I don't quite see where the definition of the resulting phrase comes in.

gooner @4

This is a bit of a HOW-D'YE-DO means we've got some trouble here.

Not sure how current is this rather quaint expression.

Difficulty presumably felt by crowned head?

UNEASE but how does it parse?

Loved the HOW D'YE DO clue. Very Wallace and Gromit!

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown
Shakespeare, Henry IV Part2

I saw a review once that said something like "the actor playing the King looked in constant fear that someone else would play the ace"

It's from a Shakespeare quote - Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Thanks both, not familiar with the Histories - apart from Henry V (the Agincourt stuff and the Dolphin as our English Master dubbed him)

1 down: Unheard of numbers in units briefly given officer rank (6,8)



The answer appears to be: Silent Majority, but I cannot fully parse it, although I see unheard = silent and major = officer. Would be grateful for enlightenment. Thanks in advance. Roger