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HaizeyDays | 10:39 Tue 07th Jan 2020 | Crosswords
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I have never got more than half-way before, so I am pretty pleased with myself, but I am stuck on 4 questions, and would appreciate your help:

43d. Identifying tone from phone number they used regularly (8, hyphenated).
C - L L - O T E. Call Note?

53d. Recollected promise to pay Euros for shout at bar? (4)
E - O I Eloi?

47d. Understatement is inaccurate about drink (7)
T I - - - E S Tisanes?

58a. Investigate, like a big snitch? (4)
- - S Y Nosy?

I have put my guesses above, but would appreciate confirmation, or otherwise, and how I should parse the answer.

Many thanks,

Haizeydays.
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47 Litotes, understatement. Lies, is inaccurate, with Tot, drink, inside.

53 Euoi = iou E(uros) reversed
58a looks ok
53 Euoi, old drinking call. IOU, promise to pay, reversed (recollected) with E, European at the front.
43 is correct - and has been parsed on an earlier AB thread.
Call note- call(phone) +no(number) +t(h)e(y)
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Gosh, that was quick. Thank you everyone.
Glad we could help. I'd already done the crossword, so just had to retrieve the answers from my brain!
Haizey, I wondered why 58 A didn't really work as it was written, so I checked the puzzle. It was 'Investigative, like a big snitch?', so Nosy works better.
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Thank you Nical. I was peeking at the clues as I typed them up. I am at the office trying to look busy...
Haizey, thanks. I mentioned that clue just in case it puzzled other solvers here. Hope you enjoy finishing off the puzzle … after work!

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