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Saint Andrew - 189

November 21, 2008 by Christine  
Filed under Crossed Wires

Extract from Crossed Wires BIG 189

The last day of November is the feast day of St Andrew, a Jewish fisherman from Bethsaida and younger brother of St Peter. Obviously popular internationally, he’s the patron saint of Scotland, Russia, Romania, Greece, Amalfi, and Luqa in Malta. The Scottish flag features St Andrew’s X-shaped cross.
The name Andrew comes from the Greek Andreia meaning ‘manhood’ or ‘valour’ and is often shortened to Andy or Drew. Other versions of Andrew are Andre (eg. US tennis ace Andre Agassi and Dutch violinist AndrĂ© Rieu), Anders or Andreja.

I find the name Andrew very useful when creating cryptic clues because it has three anagrams, wander, warden and warned.

Both Sydney and Melbourne have a suburb called St Andrews. New Zealand also has a town in south Canterbury and a Hamilton suburb called St Andrews.

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