Crosword Puzzle

[forester48.livejournal.com]

Does anyone know the answer to the crossword clue in the morning paper (Times or Telegraph, I bet, not the Guardian) at Trennels in Falconer's Lure? It's 'Shakespeare said it 5,3'. I thought it might be an anagram from Fear No More but can't do it.

It's in Chapter 2 p38, my hardback copy when they're all sitting round the breakfast table and Kay's got the paper.

Comments

[ejarh.livejournal.com]

Fear no More is from Cymbeline and and in Act I, Scene II a character called "First Lord" says, "Stand you!" Could that be it?

[forester48.livejournal.com]

Cymbeline is too little known for AFs child audience to be familiar with. I'm convinced it has something to do with hawks or is at any rate in context with something in the book.

Or are you taking the p***? "Stand you!" indeed!

[richenda.livejournal.com]

Cymbeline is too little known for AFs child audience to be familiar with. I'm convinced it has something to do with hawks or is at any rate in context with something in the book

I agree about Cymbeline and you could be right about hawks - but it must also be something that a Times reader could work out from the clue alone?
I was concentrating on "Shakespeare" and "saying" - that's how I got to "quoth"

[forester48.livejournal.com]

Times/Telegraph readers would have the odd letter to help and would be erudite enough to think of an answer that depended on good knowledge of Shakespeare. We only have the falconry conversation to go on so I think it might be hidden in there perhaps. Shakespeare must have said something quotable about falcons/birds?

[richenda.livejournal.com]

. We only have the falconry conversation to go on so I think it might be hidden in there perhaps. Shakespeare must have said something quotable about falcons/birds?

Um. So we are looking for something about which we have the advantage that it might be about falcons/birds that they don't have, but that they might have the advantage of letters that we don't have?

[ejarh.livejournal.com]

It was Shakespeare who said it, not me!

[ejarh.livejournal.com]

Whoops - this should be under Forrester48 a few comments up.