Crossword-Solution: UNWIRED 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Kneebone helped to the pigeon-pie; while Thames unwired and uncorked a bottle of stout Carnarvonshire ale.

The rabbits smoked at the head, smothered in a rich sauce of cream, and nicely shredded onions; the pork chops, thin and crisply broiled, exhaled rich odors at the bottom; the English snipe, roasted to half a turn, and reposing on their neat squares of toast, were balanced by a dish of well-fried sausages, reclining on a bed of mashed potatoes; champagne was on the table, unresined and unwired, awaiting only one touch of the knife to release the struggling spirit from its transparent prison.

But it was a nagging and an unhappy business to know that they were watched and overheard everywhere save in that one unwired room.

The instrument was unwired, unconnected, dead; and yet the feel of it, the look of it, sent electric currents through his nerves.

But strangest of all was the absence of what had been the highlight of Amby’s office, a dead, unwired, rehearsal microphone.