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Matakari | 11:40 Fri 19th Feb 2021 | Crosswords
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Good day,
Help with the following would be appreciated, please !
Thanks in advance !
1(a) Promoted male only editor eclipsed (8): ?????G??
11(a) In brief affair, my girl headed off cutting turf (12): ?????H???O??
17(a) Palm stem hollow? It floats (5): N????

16 (d) Priests hold mass for harvest festival (6): ??E???
20(d) One hook holds Nancy’s black robe (8): ?GU??A??
22 (d) Old Italian coin shows small horse, docked (6): M?????
31(d) Diffuse energy supports universe with no beginning (6): ?E???E
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Matakari, you have mistakes in all bar 1 A - maybe worth having another look? (Or just say if you want all the answers.)
On six of the seven you have wrong letters. ROFLMAO.
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Let's start with some hints, please!
For 16 down think of a name for a priest (sounds like an animal) which should get you to a festival. F0r 20d you need a French name for a woman's dressing gown.
An even better aid would be to get a Bradford's crossword solver

word for hook used to hang washing, with a 1 in, then french word for opposite of blanc
all 3 of your letters are wrong for 20d by the way. Well the G is right but in wrong place
16 think of a tibetan priest
and now use your Loaf for 16d
22d begins with s(mall) + a 6 letter word for a horse but then chop off the last letter. The whole word is an Italian coin of old but another meaning of it is "a small shiny disc sewn onto clothes especially dresses"
1a think of male party /do on a long weekend
and 1a starts with the name of a song by The Saturday's
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Nice looking hints...I'm out for a walk and will be back to
mull over these. Many thanks!
31d Think of a new york soccer team and remove the first letter, then add the usual abbreviation for energy to the end
Got it now with that clue thanks Jj109
Thanks Bobb, let's hope Matakari does!
Matakari, such generous hints shouldn't need much 'mulling over', I expect they'll help enormously!
11A- Your O is wrong. A word meaning a brief affair with a shortened word for a female member of the family inserted will give you an archaic term for peat or sod cutting. It's in Chambers.

22D Your M is wrong. S for "small" then a term for horse, or horse-like shortened by one letter. The solution is also a term meaning a small shiny thing.
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Got 16, 20, 22 and am working on 1, 11, 17, 3...Thanks, all!
We have given two of the elements for 1- just need to add the abbrev for editor. Definition eclipsed (think of actors)
32 definition is diffuse. Denis Tuert played for them I think in NY, replace first letter by symbol for energy

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