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Sunday Times Prize Crossword 4531 Sunday March 31St 2013

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mercedita | 13:32 Tue 02nd Apr 2013 | Crosswords
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20Across: Hanging features in foreign prison camp with no end of cheering etc and it's awful (11).

I think the answer is "stalagmites", because of the "foreign prison camp" being "stalag", but how does the rest of the clue give you "-mites"? And aren't the hanging ones not "stalactites" anyway?
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Apologies - 'stala(g)' - prison camp with no end of '(cheerin)g'
17:59 Tue 02nd Apr 2013
20a Stalactites - 'stala(g)' (prison camp, no end) + anag 'etc + its'
20a.Stalactites ( Stala(g) + anagram of etc its)
foreign prison camp = STALAG, no end of = STALA
'etc' and 'its' awful = CTITES
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Thank you, Lie-in King, Danny & Bert, you must think I'm a right twit! What was "cheering" doing in there? I think that's what put me off, among other things!).
Apologies - 'stala(g)' - prison camp with no end of '(cheerin)g'
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Wish you could have heard the "Aaahhh" here, as it dawned on me! Many thanks, again, Lie-in-King. One last question: Have you come across The Crossword Club? I sent for the March Edition as a trial, but I can't get into it at all! Can you do any of it? I thought I was moderately OK but this is a total blank wall to me!

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