Briefly peel and cut a vegetable (7)
Briefly is a clue that a word in the solution is a letter or letter short of something meaning "peel"
Peel = pare
Briefly peel = par
Cut = snip
Par + snip = parsnip – which of course is a lovely, but much underrated vegetable!
Caught parrot fish in New England
resort area (4,3)
Source of clue – NZ HeraldHint - look for the name of a famous resort area in New England and then see how it matches the first part of the clue which is a charade with an abbreviation for caught also in it.
Ah, yes. I see it now. I was still working on. Got close but no cigar. I was stuck on scale for peel cause I though cale (kale) as the veggie and thought I was on to something there. But I think they might be starting to make sense to me now alittle better.
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh I solved it already!
ReplyDeleteCaught - C Parrot - ape Fish - Cod
in New England Resort area – Cape Cod!
I like charade clues!