Tied up for Yuletide, the cryptic David

[Tabouli]

Alas, Fellow Chatters, I have ill tidings... tomorrow I am, yet again, off to Adelaide to spend Yuletide with my family (was that a muffled wince you heard?)  Now, I'm looking into the possibility of working out how to use my ISP to connect to the Net from my father's computer (the stingy fellow has vetoed netsurfing on his own, timed account), and plan to swap OT-Chatter to individual posts to my Yahoo Taboulica account for the week or so I'm there, but I sadly anticipate a rather restricted capacity for responding to posts in any proper fashion (e.g. a fashion which involves strident defences of Tom Bombadil, page long rants on controversial social issues, whimsical musings on Lewis Carroll and JKR's literary style, etc.).

If anyone has any fan mail for me to pass on to Tom Bombadil, rest assured that I will do my best under difficult circumstances, and that normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.

David:
> That would be The Abominable Bombadil Of Unspeakable Literary 
Instincts?

No, just a Disturbingly Amicable Voldemort In Disguise.

Tabouli, who has figured out all of David's evil crossword clues except 4 across, which she thinks is Ebony but cannot for the life of her figure out how this is derived from "spinning wren"...


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