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08012006 | 10:55 Fri 27th Apr 2012 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Any sugestions for these please; I'll keep struggling with the downs !
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13 Undergarment worn bypenitents (6)
?i???e
15 According to the demands of the case (2,2,4)
In re n???
17 Presidential cat (8)
???f????
26 Fanciful C16th term for low spirits or colic (10)
????u?r?b?
28 Literary commentators who concentrate on texts rather than background (3,7) ?e? critics
33 Small cake of unleavened Indian bread, deep-fried and served hot (5)
?o?r?
47 Instrument which measures the degree of fermentation (9)
???ometer

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21 Patron saint of the archdiocese of Tuam (7)
http://www.theanswerb.../Question1085600.html Jarlath or Jariath ? – again !
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33 Poori
47 Zymometer
26 Mulligrubs
13 Cilice
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Thanks emeritus; cilice recalls reading The Da Vinci Code !
28 New Critics
17 Garfield
15 Ex Re Nata ( Chambers confirms)
17 Garfield
21a Jarlath - The other spelling won't fit.
How do you enter this by email? Send a copy of your grid solution as an attachment?
Yes, That's what I do. I did get a confirmation of receipt the first time .......... but not since.
Thanks JimJools- I'll give it a try this month then!
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Thanks folks: I am now left with just 9d
In basset, seven times as much added to the first stake (8) ?E?T?E?T

Wikipedia just tells me: The sept-et-le-va (seven and the go): the first great chance that showed the advantages of the game, namely, if the player had won the couch, and then made a paroli by crooking the corner of his card, and going on to a second chance, if his winning card turned up again, it became a sept-et-le-va, which was seven times as much as he had laid upon his card.
Septleva ( again chambers confirms )
Entry by email.
Interesting, Jools. I enter this (and The Week) by listing the solutions exactly as they do themselves. e.g. "last month's solutions".
Any further suggestions would be welcome.

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