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JJ109 | 05:53 Sun 29th Oct 2023 | Crosswords
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25d Bar - not a beautiful place for alcohol moderation (5) R?NCE

I presume this is Rance which can be the stretcher or "bar" between the legs of a chair, but I cannot parse anything else!

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Can only suggest   .... temperance for alcohol moderation minus      Tempe  which, in Greek myth, was a beautiful place??
06:08 Sun 29th Oct 2023

Can only suggest   .... temperance for alcohol moderation minus      Tempe  which, in Greek myth, was a beautiful place??

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Reading the wiki article, I think you are correct. Many thanks!

The Classical idealisation of the Vale of Tempe continued to inform the European imagination over two millennia. In his illustrated atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1590), Abraham Ortelius pictured the gorge as "The Paradise of Tempe at the foot of Mount Olympus", inhabited by a pious and happy people........"

 

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