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21d 'Hoy' precedes this dam fool. MA?INA. Marina, but why?
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21d 'Hoy' precedes this dam fool. MA?INA. Marina, but why?
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28d You might see this end up in an opera. ?RIA. "Aria" seems too obvious: if it is, could someone please explain the clue?...
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16a In daughter it is hideous, hot tears apart (11). Ingratitude is the only word to fit, but I don't see the reasoning.
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Wordfinder: I have been playing around with these anagram letters for too long (rarely watch TV - too busy doing crosswords!). What do the letters PSHOAELLURN suggest?...
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In a bit of a mess: I have AOO?? for 24a 'Stop to eat nameless, thick soup'. Where have I gone wrong, please? And 2d'Crack troops to leave excursion in Welsh festival' HA? looks like haj, but I can't...
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Had our Xmas meal on Xmas Eve, spoiled by a dog fight between a female cocker-spaniel and a dalmatian bitch under the table over a dog toy. Had to break up the fight. Spaniel left the room and...
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Is anyone else doing this week's? Have enjoyed struggling to the end but have one letter left to fill in at 16a... 'Birds pecking at nuts? It's dry inside'. The definition has 5 letters, including an...
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21a Big number from author about love (G?O?O?).
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Have struggled to near completion, but can't get2d: Cross letters with cross answer spoken in the heat of the moment (2 words) I?RI?A. I originally had 'in rage', which I could find justification for,...
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26d As Carmen on... Norma one's wrong! (5 - 'Carmen' and 'Norma' in italics). I have 'scena', but can't make sense of the clue. There is an obvious anagram there, with a superfluous C...
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29a The way "spinet" may be deconstructed cryptically? ?T?E?T. Must be 'street', but too cryptic for me this morning!
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16d 'Baron with this old whiff, say, could be ennobling' ('this' in italics). I have ?ONGNINE. Have I got something wrong?
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1a Revolutionary class starts to run command as before HE?S?E. I think 'heaste' (obs. for 'hest'), but would be happier if I could find an r(un) in it!
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If 'wobbly infants' are 'jelly babies', what are 'birthday party', 'rewarded leaders' and 'hand flowers'?
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Is everyone else missing the Review section containing the crosswords today?
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1d 'Twisted small wings'. I have W?U?D? Obvious answer is WOUNDS (twisted + s(mall)). But what has 'wounds' to do with 'wings'? (Wounds and Wings is the name of an American band, formed by Sarx and...
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28a Deil forseeing e.g. calamity wi' holy books. ?IENT.
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Poetry in 'clewing'!
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23d With nothing flowing, this issue could be serious. ?RES?S. I have uresis, but don't see how 'serious' comes into it...
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