Good morning! That’s all I have to say. 🤐 Mum‘s the word.

Thanks , Jasdip🤫

Not a clue - Yikes! is correct.

KW, move over. I am in your boat this morning.

Got it. I can now go outside and listen to the birds sing. Thanks, Jasdip.

tj

I got it!

LOL! Tsug

^Ditto! 😄 Got it!

Well, I've got something. No idea if it's right.

floral, you’re a gardener. Does Diggory Diggory Delvet ring a bell? 😄

Oh my goodness - I believe I've solved it!

😄

We do cryptic crosswords which is what made this one one I could get. I am so bad at these usually.

Even with the bints I’m clueless

Really? You got it!!! Some of you must have a secret informant. I was almost going to offer to hand-deliver the chili dog, until I read your comments.

“Even with the bints I’m clueless”

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bint

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/bint

Well, FOAS, you don’t have to call us names. 😄

Thanks, Jasdip

Yay! Got one right - for a change 😄

Gracias, Jasdip 🙂

And stumped FOAS, et al., the letters spelling 'secret' are between letters spelling 'formant', so 'secret' in 'formant' 😉

And Diggory Diggory Delvet is a mole. Get it? A mole? 😄

Seriously? I give up.

Oh gosh I was looking for exactly that sort of thing but totally missed it. I think the ”a” screwed me up because it loused up the pattern.

Rox that’s hystericsl about my typo. i didn’t know the word until now so I swear it wasn’t intentional! 😂

Wow. Never in a million would I get that one. I was trying to make a flower / rabbit /garden connection with rox’s clues. However, I did immediately figure out foas wasn’t calling anyone a name & meant to key in ”hints” not bints. It’s the Qwerty keyboard layout that tipped me off. Interesting that ’bints’ is an actual word for UK - I never heard it used anywhere I’ve been in US.

A little bird gave me the answer. Thanks again.

tj

Every other letter is an occasional Cryptic. So with that agglomeration of letters that is what I looked for. I am normally no good with these things. So nice to be right for a change. Good fun had by all

Yes, got that one. Like Patriciae says, the bunch of apparently random letters was the clue. And I knew the Beatrix Potter book reference although not one of my favourites.