yes, she_el...over to you 🙂

Mad Hatter's Ball?

Nope, sorry.

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

She disabled three would-be assailants – the story contains graphic details.

3 words 3, 6’1, 4 letters

 

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Her Killer’s Tale.    

The Farmer's Wife

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

She disabled three would-be assailants – the story contains graphic details.

3 words 3, 6’1, 4 letters

 

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Can I please do some ‘working out’ on here, so the cryptic professionals can guide me in the right direction because I am seriously struggling ‘mentally’ to work these damn solutions out.... comes with shift worker brain I think which is probably akin to baby brain 😂

so my thinking is:  She disabled three-  so I’m scrambling the letters of the word three to get a female word=Her? Or maybe it’s another word for three=tri = try?  Or perhaps it’s got nothing to do with she at all and the answer is The?  IDK that’s for sure.... lol

Then for the last part: The story contains graphic details. I originally thought it was a whole clue. Hence my Killer’s answer.  But then I thought Eg- story =tale. (The only 4 letter word for story I could think of) but NOW I’m thinking along the lines that a 4letter word rhyming with story that means graphic is Gory. .... but I don’t know how to fit it into the cryptic clue as a whole. 🤦🏻‍♀️ 3, 6’1, Gory. 
I’m also stabbing in the dark that the answer is a name of a book..... being a writer and all 😉

H..E...L...P 😂😂😂😂😂

Correct.

3 would-be assailants = three blind mice (they all ran after the farmer's wife)

graphic details = she detailed them (cut off their tails) with a carving knife.

thus disabling them. 

The thing is janeababe, some people who write cryptic clues are sneaky, devious, conniving, misleading and misdirecting culprits. The trick is to work out which trick/s they are pulling! It's hard and can all but do your head in at times. But with experience comes strength, and they can be brought down! 😄