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Looking to understand why the answer to 4D - “Beer first for every drinker did make a hit” is “walloped”
All help gratefully received!

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Wallop is a slang word for beer. Add the first letters of e(very) d(rinker) and you get the answer, meaning "did make a hit"

wallop is another word for alcoholic drink
+ first letters of every drinker

Ah …. Thanks!!!!

wallop is an old slang word for beer. a brewer called codd made an inferior brew, hence coddswallop...

Wikipedia states that explanation is just "folk etymology" ! (not proven about Hiram Codd)

We have on the kitchen windowsill a Codd's bottle that we dug up in the garden. It's quite interesting. It was seqaed by a glass ball in the swollen neck. You got at the contents (probably a soft drink rather than beer) by pushing the ball down with a stick. See the link, for instance:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175102733100?var=0&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&toolid=10050&campid=5338358731&customid=CjwKCAjw1ICZBhAzEiwAFfvFhA9wBloIJNzcAEHhpGV0MDCyMrdOJcU8KBrR5z_EO_-7b2Aa9i1cXRoCuEcQAvD_BwE

We dug up a couple of codd-neck bottles when we moved into our present house. I gave one away and the other is also on a window ledge. It has Castleford at the bottom

Love it!

Ps - is “folk etymology” not just another expression for coddswallop …. 😉