Amazing CRYPTIC CROSSWORD MNetters ------- please help me

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Enoh to beg land When? *

5 LETTERS* in the answer

Yes I have spelt it correctly, it is from 1980s newspaper either Times or Telegraph

Please help me or at least tell me how to solve it cos I am totally confused by it

(I can't remember if land has a capital letter or not but When deffo has capital and question mark and I know Enoh does have a capital E)

Thank you wonderful MNetters

I have found the answer bit have no idea how this one works. Enoh isn't a word, but it seems that's part of the clue!

You've copied the clue slightly wrong, afaict

Hmm the W suggests a name beginning with W and I would say WOODY after Woody Guthrie, who wrote "This Land is Your Land". But my gut instinct is that it must be YEMEN (1980s theme) or NEVER- for the question "When?" It could also be PLEAD for the begging part.

Do any of those fit?

Ahhh! Is it ENOCH?

Have you got any letters?

The definition is probably “when”. I’d guess a four letter word relating to “enoh” followed by the letter “l” for the begging of land.

That's what i thought too

I'm dying for someone to get this so I can begin to understand it. I've found someone talking about it but still not giving the answer!

Look! tony-sever.livejournal.com/419826.html

Working back from the answer, which I found online....

Enoh is a variety of apricot. If you remove the ‘c’ that is kind of missing from Enoch, plus the to, you are left with Apri, beg the l from land as pp suggested and you get April, the answer to When?

I'm not entirely satisfied with this explanation though...

Tbf i can't make sense of what i just linked to

That's what I found but he still doesn't give the answer.

April

It’s from Robert Browning’s poem ...Home thoughts from abroad

Oh to be in England now that April’s there

Enoh to beg land.......EN/oh to be/GLAND.....Oh to be in England

^^ thanks! Would never have gotten that.

This is why I'm bad at CC

Ah! “Oh to be” literally inside the word England.

That’s stinky hard. I’m really good at cryptic crosswords and that was too hard for me.

Not knowing the poem was a bit of a disadvantage to be fair!

Grrr.

That’s a bugger of a question. Not sure I’d ever have got it and I do know the poem!

Wow that was HARD but what a satisfaction to get it right! I know the poem but couldn't make the link,

Thank you for your help

No it is really

Enoh not Enoch

My DH set me this challenge but I am stuck

He has just given me a clue ........

The answer is a MONTH

The answer is April. The reasons are explained by wincarnis a few posts up.

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Yes massive cross post

My connection went dodgy

Thank you all so much especially wincarnis

I had thought Enoch to be one of the answers, not a typo in the clue. What a fantastic clue it was, in the end! Thanks for sharing