Oops, There Go My Coco Pops
Here are the answers to last week’s Breakfast Flunkers – crossword clues that push the limits of good taste. You may need to have safely downed your Weet-Bix before proceeding, or at least be sitting down.
In order, the answers are diarrhoea, oldie, spotty, death squad, scurries and Dutch elms. Gross you reckon? Which is grosser?
Rating high in the Gross Stakes is an old clue from Afrit, an accomplished compiler for The Listener. Back in 1950 (to be fair to the bloke) the setter deemed his clue below to be fair, reasonable and inoffensive:
What do happen, Mose, if our gals lose deir heads? Oh, den you find de ways out! (8)
For Afrit’s answer, plus the whole modern maelstrom of Political Correctness in the 15×15 world of crosswords, check out my next post.