h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Here's a new one

Forth is awa! RN ally at your service (8)

Shipmate

Forth is awash - I P maternally, at your service

perhaps not. Still can't solve my own either.

There's no such word as terimete is there?

No, but you're getting warmer

Or could you have meant terameter but included the R by mistake?

Not that, but that's closer still.

T E R - - E T E ?

Can't find any words that fit that, mind you.

I got as far as SHIPMATE myself, but I was starting it "For this, a w...."

Not those, sorry.

Post 205 is the closest so far.

Closer than 207? I'm lost

terabyte? But how?

For this, a wate, am maternally at your service.

Not those. It's obvious when you see it, and you have been 75% there.

I'll try a different approach...

Forth I saw a CELL, MATErnally at your service.

Obviously it's wrong, but it's the best I can manage at the moment.

Anything to do with a 'waiter'?

Not that, DDD.

You're not inserting it in the right place, either...

Oh!

For this a warM ASS Eternally at your service

Masseter, a large muscle that raises the lower jaw and is used for chewing

I never cease to be amazed how obscure words sometimes fit.

That's not the answer I had planned, but good spot!

AAaaarrrghhh!

Put us out of our extreme misery!

<>

Agreed, or at least a clue.

I have wasted *so* much of the last 72hrs (of which I've had 11hrs sleep) pondering this clue.

I'm beginning to ing hate it. I'm also regretting asking Icy about this obscure place of cryptic mind-bending frustration.