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This small piece of kit is designed to make building your Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle question more effective. It should make finding your question easier for others and, the easier it is to find, the more likely someone is to answer it!

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Genius crossword 240 in The Oldie magazine

joyla | 01:30 Tue 03rd Mar 2009 | Crosswords

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8 across: jump, getting message about port (8) C?B?????

14 across: Comic actor beginning to banter with female in spacecraft?(7) BU???L?

thank you in advance for your help
joyla

telegraph

big monday express 8 down

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kettledrum

8a cabriole .... cable (message) round Rio (port)

kettledrum

14a It looks awfully like buffalo.

Buffo (comic actor); and B(anter) + F(emale) in UFO (spacecraft), but I can't see where the AL fits. Are there any special instructions with this crossword?

joyla

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many thanks kettledrum,
and yes there are certain starred* questions (14 across being one of them) the complicated instructions read :
"Answers to starred clues are words which are too short to be grid entries. In each case,the entry is created by the attachment or insertion of another part. These parts of one,two or three letters will spell out in clue order a two word term for the process by which the resulting entries are formed. The term was coined by 8down who was born two hundred years ago in february."
I have Charles Darwin for 8d but so far have not worked out the two word process !

kettledrum

Natural selection ?

joyla

Question Author

I am sure you are correct Kettledrum, Natural Selection it must be.
Thank you again
joyla

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