Cryptic caves

[Fulk]

Pale red/rosy item for sale at auction, according to Spooner (4,3)

 

[Graigwen]

Top Sink?

 

[Graigwen]

Top Sink?

Sorry, I did not look at the letter count!

 

[Fulk]

Nevertheless, you got 6 of the letters right!

 

[Roger W]

Remember the sort of things the Rev. Spooner used to say...

 

[grahams]

Nick Pot?

 

[Fulk]

Not Nick Pot.

 

[Graigwen]

Link Pot

 

[Fulk]

That's the one, Graigwen . . . over to you.

 

[Graigwen]

That's the one, Graigwen . . . over to you.

I realised the answer just after I turned the computer off last night.

Give me a few minutes to try and come up with a different kind of clue.

 

[Graigwen]

South from Scarlets' home the view is wide,
blue water, sand and rushing tide.
Few who see it know how all that floods by
dropped miles away, from a single eye.

.

 

[Fulk]

An evocative clue . . . could we have a word count, please?

 

[grahams]

Tooth Cave?

 

[Graigwen]

An evocative clue . . . could we have a word count, please?

Two (I bet you did not mean that!)

 

[Graigwen]

Tooth Cave?

No, but you may well have cracked the most important part of the clue.

 

[RobinGriffiths]

Llygad Llwchr. as in source of the Loughor.

 

[Graigwen]

South from Scarlets' home the view is wide,
blue water, sand and rushing tide.
Few who see it know how all that floods by
dropped miles away, from a single eye.

.

I suppose I should add a letter count (I am not very good at this).

6, 7

 

[Graigwen]

Llygad Llwchr. as in source of the Loughor.

Correct, the Eye of the Loughor. It is all yours now.

 

[Fulk]

So what's all that about Scarlet's home (not to mention most of the rest of the clue . . . sorry, I'm not taking the piss, I just don't get it)?

 

[Graigwen]

So what's all that about Scarlet's home (not to mention most of the rest of the clue . . . sorry, I'm not taking the piss, I just don't get it)?

I hope I got the apostrophe in the right place, it was inteded to indicate a plural possessive. Scarlet on its own is vague, but Scarlets as a plural is rare. I believe Grahams worked this out as he suggested a Gower cave - south of the home of the Llanelli Scarlets, one of the four Welsh rugby regions.

If you look south from Llanelli, you look over the wide expanse of the Lougher estuary. The source of the Lougher is Llygad Llwchwr, where the water comes out from the rock at a site that literally tramslates as the Eye of the Lougher.

...anyway Robin got it...

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