February Crossword

But struggling to get 33 across to marry up with 27 down!!

Write your comments here...I am the same with  27 down, and given up. I have the first letter a A, third as L and fifth as D.  Pilgrimphil, are you the same?

Weedkiller and abled. 

Thank you - my Crosswords answers website doesn't recognise "Abled" as a word!!

I'd say it should be enabled to be correct but that wouldn't fit. 

Weedkiller and abled. 

 

Write your comments here...Ahh, thank you Jill, it's a good job some of us are brainy. this has saved me having to wait a month for the answer as I had given up. I assumed weedkiller must have beeen wrong and started looking for chemical compound names. I'll go and stand in the corner for ten minutes.   

I got 'abled' OK, as the only word that would fit, but agree with Jill that 'enabled' would be more apt. I just put it down to the generally poor standard of the crossword.

I got 'abled' OK, as the only word that would fit, but agree with Jill that 'enabled' would be more apt. I just put it down to the generally poor standard of the crossword.

Must agree it is not a word I use but it is all that fits.

But  surely  its  the  opposite  of  Disabled  ??

Abled (adjective)

"Having a full range of physical or mental abilities; not disabled."

Enable is a verb.

But, on a different point, I agree, having actually looked at the crossword, that "Abled" is not a satisfactory answer to the clue.

But enabled would be. If you ever tried to write a crossword you'll know that sometimes compromises have to be made. But the error was in the clue.