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davey b | 18:44 Sat 18th Jan 2025 | Crosswords
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Explosive ; state of Dallas     ?E?T?X

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Semtex

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Thanks. Can anyone please parse?

Sorry, I just answered what fitted the letters for "explosive" .
? something to do with Dallas being in Texas.

Dallas is in Texas amd Tx is the abbreviation for Texas, but I'm not sure where the SEME comes from (anagram of Seem but can't see why). Is that the full clue?

: is in the clue, so Sem(icolon)-Tex - abbrev for Texas

Excellent Captain- although I didn't know SEM was an abbreviation for SEMICOLON. I'm not sure about Tex as being Texas but it seems sesnsible for that to be an accepted alternative abbreviation

Thought I'd have a Search with it being the Wee Stinker's hbit of reusing crosswords; and davey, it looks like you asked the very same in 2018 and 2020!!!! 😉

found this:

//In linguistics, a seme is a basic unit of meaning, or a linguistic sign. The word comes from the Greek word sêma, which means "distinguishing mark, sign, signal".//

I think it's more likely to be parsed as per captain, but I'm still not sure why 'state of Dallas' suggests Tex/Texas. It is the capital but there's nothing saying that's what we want.

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Thanks folks. Much appreciated.

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