Cryptic clue revealed
Earlier in the program, we shared a cryptic clue from DA, cryptic clue writer for The Age and SMH.
This week's clue was: Models hate a nylon stocking—curses! (7,8)
The answer is the public face of the high-speed rail study, leader of the house and federal minster for infrastructure and transport Anthony Albanese.
Here's how the clue works:
- Models is your signpost to mix. Don't think of Miranda Kerr, or Jennifer Hawkins, as hard as that might be for some listeners, but rather model as a verb. To shape. To mould.
- The next phrase therefore—hate a nylon—are the letters in need of shaping.
- Stocking follows on from that, the clue's real booby-trap, since the surface story makes you think of stocking as in hosiery, when again the word serves as a verb, telling you to stock—or store—what follows, which is a synonym of curses. That word is banes.
- The minute you stock banes inside a remodelling of hate a nylon you get Anthony Albanese.
- Jennifer Leake