I suggest we again try to solve
Squatter's last puzzle.
Quote:
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Worldly jewellery unsuitable for choral piece
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I'll try some thinking aloud, and perhaps with a team effort we can solve this one:
1. The first difficulty is, what is the straight clue? Somehow I don't think that either
worldly jewelry or
choral piece is a straight clue, so maybe this is a rare cryptic clue without a "straight" part.
2. "Worldly" – Eä?
3. "Jewelry" inevitably suggests "ring" to me.
4. "Unsuitable" – ah, there's the rub. This must be a cryptic "pointer" of some kind, but what can it mean? "Unsuitable" means
it doesn't fit. Could that mean that whatever "worldly jewelry" means, you shorten it before combining it with "choral piece"?
5. Finally, "choral piece" – probably means "CHOR", "CHO" or something like this.
Which gives us . . . WHAT, exactly? I thought of ECHORIATH, which has EARTH ("worldly"?) plus CHO ("choral piece"), but it doesn't fit with the rest.
Anyone else have an idea?