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18d cavern is a hollow
Cave (in Latin)Beware
RN Royal Navy

Ah yes Gilbert and Sullivan...clever wordplay in their songs...animal vegetable minerals is the next line of that song or summat.

18d. Chambers has ‘cave’ as a schoolboy interjection meaning ‘beware’. Didn’t know this. RN is Royal Navy

PS to my last post
Cave is British public-schoolboy slang . While the class did something illicit, one boy would watch and hiss "Cave" to his classmates when he spotted a "beak" (teacher) coming.

18d....Jono.... where's the schoolboy come into it though?

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I thought it was interesting when I first learned that the warning is usually pronounced Kavay - I'd have been shouting Cave!

Ah yes, Jazzgirl, as in ‘cave canem’, beware of the dog. But why the association with schoolboys I don’t know

17 d L (left) in pinnace (on a ship)

Our posts keep crossing. See 174re schoolboys. At my college the whisper of "Keep Cavey" was used a lot when mischief was under way