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

[richenda.livejournal.com]

I give up. We'll never know if AF was being deliberately vague like richenda thinks or if it's buried too deep in the text to be extracted.

Oh I wouldnt be so sure that my suggestion qualifies as thought. But have you noticed that sometimes "giving up" heralds a solution to the mystery?

[leapingirbis.livejournal.com]

I remember worrying that I was unable to solve this and was therefore clearly far too stupid to be a true Antonia Forest reader! I thought maybe an anagram derived from "the bard's quote" or similar - but have never been any good at cryptic crosswords!

[richenda.livejournal.com]

I thought maybe an anagram derived from "the bard's quote" or similar - but have never been any good at cryptic crosswords!

Yessss. What occurs to me yet again is that our difficulty is that we don't know whether we're looking for.
Is it
an alternative phrase for "the poet spoke"
a direct quotation from Shakespeare
an anagram
a combination of two or all of those?

[forester48.livejournal.com]

I didn't worry about it - I just skipped over all the bits in AFs books that tried to make me think which is why I keep finding more and more in them now.

I certainly never identified with any of her child characters - except poor Marie Dobson perhaps - they were far ahead of me in every possible way and I would never have passed the entrance exam to get into a school like Kingscote being a very idle child with no sense of purpose.

Sorry, didn't mean to digress. About the crossword: I would so like to find a plausible answer to the clue. I hope AF wasn't being 'deliberately vague but I've got a feeling she might have been since richenda planted this idea in my head.