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sire | 23:59 Sun 10th Feb 2008 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Explanation please. I cannot find a dictionary that gives LURGI as an alternative to LURGY, This of course throws out 29a. Kilocalorie. Suggestions???

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I don't have the xword so don't know the clue however in Chambers Dictionary it gives Lurgi as relating to a plant that enables coal gas to be made from low grade coal.
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Sorry Shaneystar2. Should have put the clue:_ Facetious name for a disease popularised by The Goon Show. I was around in those days & it was always known as the 'Dreaded Lurgy'
Aha I see !
They spell it Lurgi in the scripts

http://www.thegoonshow.co.uk/scripts/lurgi.htm l

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goon_Show

Rhubarb !!
plug in "lurgi"+"goons" into your normal search engine

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