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Spectator 2635 20 Down 30 Down Help Please

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quinol | 11:52 Sun 07th Jan 2024 | Crosswords
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20 down: His excellency's upset with crucial colony

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30 down: McColgan's trick: runner blocking bend

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yes ...cleruchia
12:32 Sun 07th Jan 2024

What patterns and counts please?

30 Pliskie, trick ( a Scottish word, so McColgan's) Plie, bend, with Ski,runner, inside.

20 D. Yes - of HE, his excellency and Crucial. The answer is a word I'd never seen before.

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20 down has 9 letters -l--u----

I think the 'l' is right, it's an anagram of hecrucial

elchurica? cleruchia?

Many thanks to neveracrossword for 30

yes ...cleruchia

Cleruchia

 

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many thanks to roslyn and the stath - I just found cleruchia on line but only the Italians have ever heard of it

Quinol. glad I could help.

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phew just finished with your help, have learnt (maybe) several very obscure words and only saw the unclueds very late

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