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bobobalde111 | 13:02 Thu 29th Dec 2005 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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there are obvious answers for these questions but ive no idea how they are arrive at


1/steal spruce (4) -m-g


2/ scots bashful about gathering for christmas dinner (5) t-b-e


3/a long short story of blighted love and uncle losing heart (8) n-u-e-l-


4/wrongly apply to you and me to cut stake in gambling (6) m-s-s-

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3a looks like NOUVELLE (anagram of love and uncle without the C)
1.Smug....s with mug..to rob or steal.
4 MISUSE (US inside MISE)
4.Misuse...You and me (us) with mise an old word for to lay or place as in a bet.
2 http://www.answers.com/topic/bashful tells us that BLATE is a Scots term for bashful. An anagram of that is TABLE which can be applied to the food on it as well as the structure itself.

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