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Sunday Times Cryptic Crossword 4263

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teacher611 | 14:54 Sun 10th Feb 2008 | Crosswords
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18 d Things to keep tents in, possibly. The only thing I can thing that fits the pattern c?r?f?? is carafes and I can't justify it. Can't get 26 across either, While in mum's band? s???
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Carafes......Tents= wines

S as h
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Thank you, I googled tents looking for a correlation to wines but was unable to find it.
carafe=jug=pitcher=tent erector
Tent (?), n. [Sp. tinto, properly, deep-colored, fr. L. tinctus, p.p. of tingere to dye. See Tinge, and cf. Tint, Tinto.] A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.
while = AS, mum=SH! --> band = S(AS)H
Mum's band is 'sash'
Mum = 'sh'
around
while = 'as'

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