Todays Crosaire "No this as is one's wont (4)"

yaledo

I've got these 2, I'm pretty sure they are both correct
28 Across:
That's thanks to being set crooked in the mouth (5)
TASTE

30 Across:
That's on top of the girl from Ferns (10)
MAIDENHAIR

From the last letters of these we know that 26 down must be:

_ E _ R

26 Down:
No this is as one's wont (4)

And I am fairly stumped.
A couple of lines of thinking:

"one's wont" means The manner or practice to which one is accustomed

the "No this" in the clue could be mean that by putting the letters NO before this 4-letter word we have some 6 letter word N O ? E ? R But I can't think of any 6 letter word that fits here.

Alternatively, "No this" could be taken to mean "not his": i.e. "her" Sounds promising - HERR would fit, but I can't make any sense of how this fits with "as is one's wont"

HEIR fits too, and it relates to one's will which is the opposite to one's wont... Best I've come up with yet, but I still can't see the logic of the clue...

Any ideas?

DMG 1972

I think 30 across should be Maidenhead not hair which would give you

_ E _ D

Pherekydes

yaledo wrote:

I've got these 2, I'm pretty sure they are both correct
28 Across:
That's thanks to being set crooked in the mouth (5)

Might this not be TOTES?

Giving rise to

_S_D


Used, perhaps?

Just a thought.

Pherekydes

Did ya get the answers? Put me out of my misery.:(

Slow coach

Slow coach wrote:

Might this not be TOTES?

Nah, it's definitely TASTE.....

Thanks* to being (set crooked)**

*=Ta
**=the word set, but crooked (i.e. jumbled)


Agree on the maidenhead point though.


My guess would be: NEED

nompere

The solution is "FEAR".

"No fear" is a way of saying "I won't".

Leaving out punctuation is an acceptable way of misleading solvers.

Maidenhair is a type of fern.

yaledo

Good thinking nompere, thanks
FEAR looks right to me.

I didn't know this idiom 'No Fear'
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/fear