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joggerjayne | 11:06 Tue 31st Jan 2012 | Crosswords
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13a. Butterfly (Celastrina argiolus) left out, to French surprise? (5,4)

Is it SACRE BLEU?

If so ... why?
  
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Celastrina argiolus = Holly Blue
take out 'l' (left) to give 'holy blue' = 'sacre bleu' in French

http://en.wikipedia.o...i/Celastrina_argiolus
Sacre bleu is an exclamation in French. It's one we were taught at school. There were much stronger exclamations but we weren't taught those
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