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kilifi | 15:40 Thu 28th Apr 2011 | Crosswords
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Stuck on the last two.
26d Tip cart up - ground for a fight (8) T?L???R?
36a King regularly compared to another piece (8) KN?G?T??
Must be knighted or knightly but I cannot see why!
Many thanks in advance
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Knightly - K for king and nightly for regularly. Knight - chess piece
15:45 Thu 28th Apr 2011
Knightly - K for king and nightly for regularly. Knight - chess piece
TILTYARD

'tip cart up' is the subsidiary indication.
'tip' becomes 'tilt'
'cart' becomes 'dray'
'up' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'dray' reversed gives 'yard'
'tilt'+'yard'='tiltyard'
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Thanks mfinney - would not have got that in a million years!
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Thanks Twirls. Read "king regularly" as kn for the start, and was thrown by "another piece"

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