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ventpeg Wed 27/08/08 12:19

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Aquagility
Wed 27/08/08
12:21

Thanks, ventpeg.

slaney
Wed 27/08/08
12:21

Thanks ventpeg, and here is a link..
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/usr/issues_ crossword/629.pdf

ventpeg
Wed 27/08/08
13:49

Question Author

oh dear!

The clue for 25a) gives the answer as 10 letters .... the grid shows 11 letters!!

Aquagility
Wed 27/08/08
13:56

Oh, dear! indeed, ventpeg. And my preferred solution has 10 letters!

ventpeg
Wed 27/08/08
14:17

Question Author

my solution has 11 letters as per the grid :-)

(11 letters keeps the symmetry of the grid)

08012006
Wed 27/08/08
15:38

i've put campestrian, but am stuck as follows
35a In Scotland, the end of a taper (6-4)
CANDLE ?O?P
39a Tin-plate (6)
L??T??
41a A fool (6)
N?D?E?
46a A columnar US cactus growing to 30 feet (6)
C??E??
21d Translation of the Bible into Latin, made in
Augustine’s era (5)
I?A?A
36d Relating to coloration which disguises or
protects an animal (8)
A?????IC
40d Of plant movements, not related to the
direction of the stimulus (8)
????IC

shannee
Wed 27/08/08
16:56

answers posted above :-)

shannee
Wed 27/08/08
17:48

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puz zles/Question616659.html

Aquagility
Wed 27/08/08
19:17

This from Prospect magazine:-

Thank you for your query -- yes, the solution is 11 letters long.
I am amused to learn that you should expect the competition to be void because of this minor blemish! Why should it be?

Didymus

That's alright, then. Aq.

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