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When I do full scans, it completes the job after about 400,000 items. (My friend has 800,000!) I have about a million words in documents but very few pictures and not many music downloads and no...
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I don't know why this case was proceeded with when we have a reluctant witness/ victim who admitted he was not offended at the time, some doubt about the words used (the prosecution weren't to know...
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49d garment labels (4) TA?S
Which of 2 possible answers comes to mind first?...
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rundown apartment house (8) I know the answer is "tenement" but am I the only one who, as a non-tenement dweller, finds the description "rundown" both unnecessary and insulting?...
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16a difficult, severe (5) H-A-Y I can't see past heavy, but it's a pathetic clue for a commonplace word which has 27 listings in the thesaurus which do include "difficult" but not...
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27A Eight kind of gutted adults turned back, say (4) S??E
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Now that BP's new trouble-shooter is an American, Bob Dudley, can we expect a reduction in the anti-British feeling over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill? Brits are sometimes said to be xenophobic but it...
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50d Slight amount (5) S?A?E Consensus seems to be shade. Does anyone else think ambiguity is deliberate, to encourage use of their Helpline? Incidentally, 50d is not one of the five down answers on...
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1a Earth C?A?B?R. Replies seem to suggest CLABBER, which can mean mud as well as, more commonly, curdled milk. My point is: Why does the compiler not make the clue "Mud" (instead of...
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DEcompression (previously answered) is a familiar word. Is there a case for REcompression, which is to counter the effects of decompression? Not the best clue of all time. I don't like a clue in...
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Does anyone else notice how rarely it is that the winner comes from one of the cities? Do you think they have a spread-it-around policy to attract entries from the towns and villages, or do you...
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Genesis stands out, but genetic possible?
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Profit made in London and New York (7, 5) Capital gains (presumably) But Washington DC is US capital, not New York. Are mistakes fairly common? Or is New York (somehow) a legitimate element in clue?
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Profit made in London and New York (7, 5) Capital gains (presumably) But Washington DC is US capital, not New York. Are mistakes fairly common? Or is New York (somehow) a legitimate element in clue?
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Profit made in London and New York (7, 5) Capital gains (presumably) But Washington DC is US capital, not New York. Are mistakes fairly common? Or is New York (somehow) a legitimate element in clue?
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11a Series about Henry, a killer (5) C?A?P 20a Brandy and stuff, put another way (4) ?A?A Compired seems to have ambivalent clue for every letter of answer!
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14a Hammer a follower put away BE?T Is it Beat? Belt? why?
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Flyer from Sweden closing 12 (4) ?B?? Fruit and duck starter consumed (4) ?A?E (Pate? Why?) After all, ladies dropped food! (5) P???A T.I.A.
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1d Join queen on the cross (5) ?n?e? and probably ?N?ER (ER for queen) Why would it be ENTER?
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