Understanding Today's Crossword Puzzle
The clue is "Aberdeen's distant: return its grant to stop minor injury" and the answer is "ABEIGH". Here is the explanation why this clue has this answer:
1. "Aberdeen's distant" implies that we are looking for a word relating to the city of Aberdeen and something far away or remote. We can interpret this as indicating a word that means "far" or "distant".
2. "Return its grant" suggests that we need to reverse or go back in the word "Aberdeen". By reversing "Aberdeen", we get "neerbedA".
3. "Stop minor injury" implies that we need to remove a word for a minor injury from our previous result. A common word for a minor injury is "niggle", so if we remove "niggle" from "neerbedA", we are left with "neerbedA" - "niggle" = "neerbedA".
4. Putting all the parts together, we have "neerbedA" as our result from the first three parts of the clue.
5. Finally, when we read "neerbedA" backwards, we get "ABEIGH".
Therefore, the answer to the clue "Aberdeen's distant: return its grant to stop minor injury" is "ABEIGH".
That crossword clue published 1 time/s & has 1 answer/s.
Crossword | Date | Answer |
The Times Specialist | 1 December 2018 | ABEIGH |