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Cryptomaniac | 12:42 Tue 16th May 2017 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Have completed the puzzle, but would like to know how to parse two of the themed clues:
22ac Exceptionally large.(7) 23ac Nice setter right to carry up PCs etc
(7) Both are celestial bodies and I get the UP in 23, but not the rest of it. And 22 is exceptionally small!
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23

Nice setter is french setter - me is je in french around

Up it (pcs etc) + r(ight)

For 22 across the alternate letters of huge are the symbol for the element in the periodic table
22a Mercury - exceptionally 'H(u)g(e)' (Hg; chem. symbol)
23a Jupiter - 'je' (Fr. [Nice] "me"; setter) + 'r(ight)' (carry) 'up IT'
22 Odd letter of 'Huge' gives Hg, chemical abb for the answer.
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Clever stuff Toorak, King and Mamya. Might have eventually worked out the Je and IT, but probably not the hg bit. Thanks.

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