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crockshard | 15:28 Sun 11th Aug 2013 | Crosswords
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27a When away simmer a lot of stew without fruit(9). Answer must be 'persimmon', but why? Looks like an anagram using 'simmer', but all my mental gymnastics have failed me on finding whence the PON... (once uPON?!)
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27a Persimmon - anag 'simmer' (in) 'pon(d)' (stew; fish pond)
A stew is a POND, so most of PON(d)
yes - anag in pon[d]
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I thought of stew pond, but where is the instruction to lose the D?
a lot of stew means most but not all of it,.
a lot of stew (pond)= PON
"a lot of stew..." = 'pon(d)'
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Sorry, of course I see it now! I must just be brain-damaged from twisting round in circles!

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