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Azed 2607 Parsing Help Please - 2 Letters To Confirm

JJ109 | 05:34 Sun 29th May 2022 | Crosswords

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2d Second college crew beside river get soaked, upended (6) TORPI _
It must be torpid, but why?

23d Bird’s prey rook initially dropped (5) A _ INE
I think it is AVINE (avian/birds) but why does Ravine = prey - R(ook) = avine
Ravine = prey ?????

Many thanks

Everyman

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Neveracrossword

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Ravin, raven and ravine have an entry in Chambers, and it says 'in Spenser and Milton, prey'.

06:35 Sun 29th May 2022

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Neveracrossword

Ravin, raven and ravine have an entry in Chambers, and it says 'in Spenser and Milton, prey'.

mallyh

if you google torpid meaning it says in my first year i rowed on Torpids ....a series of races for eight oared rowing boats held in Hilary term

mallyh

^^^^^in Torpids not on ,sorry

JJ109

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Many thanks to both of you, Nac and Mallyh

JJ109

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Unfortunately, I still do not see how the clue works mallyh!

mallyh

(Oxford uni)all i can see is Keble were the first then Torpid and it's some sort of bumping race

Neveracrossword

JJ109, Chambers has 'torpid' defined as the a second boat of a college', but I can't put the rest together! Pid is Dip, reversed,upended and that could be 'soaked', but I'm left with Tor (or Rot, if that's included in the 'upended')

JJ109

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Thanks again both - you got as far as me Nac, - I can't see the dip rot.

I know it is torpid - but I absolutely hate it when I can't totally parse an answer!