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I knew Azed is Guardian and I like the G. It's just that I bought a book of Times' crossies and found trying to solve some of the clues AFTER I'd found the word solution was often most frustrating. My prejudice just surfaced in my previous posting. Times solvers will not agree, of course.

Feeling rather foolish as I can't see the word play for this last short one:
33a Lines facing leader gave tongue in poetic mode ?PED
Any help please?

oped ? short for opposite editorial...a page where signed articles are written

JRS

"Lines facing leader" is the definition part(I hope) - I've went with op-ed(oppposite editorial)- don't quite get the other part.

Thank you Ixion and chrisg

to ope is a poetic form of open. In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare writes "which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips to beg the voice and utterance of my tongue". I learnt it in school a long, long time ago.

Thanks Peterm - the Scottish Play is the only Shakey I've ever oped!