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Sunday Times 4357

woolfy42 | 03:06 Sun 29th Nov 2009 | Crosswords

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It's too late to start doing it now, but having glanced at it, what kind of printing error is this?

7d Peer's own advanced retail food outlet (4,1,7'1) (13)

Classic FM,crossword,January.

Independent 7214

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It's - A - E - - - - - - - - - by the way.

kettledrum

take a butcher's ?

kayakamina

Have a butche'r s...Have =own

kalahari12

To own is to have so I guess "have a butcher's". Another hopeless clue.

kalahari12

And it should have been peers without the apostrophe. Lynn Truss would love this!

Jumbuck

peer's is short for 'peer is' in this clue not the plural noun

kalahari12

Sorry but I disagree. The clue is peers, looks, scans. If it were written "Peer's to own ...." I would agree with you. I expect decent english from the times.

Jumbuck

If it were peers then the answer would be "has a butcher's"

I peer = I have a ...
he peers = he has a ...

You do realise that in this clue the apostrophe is nothing to do with the possessive, it is the shortened form of the word 'is' e.g. it's = it is, as simple as that. So nothing to do with ownershop of anything.

kalahari12

so "peer is own advanced.. " is good english? I bow to your superior knowledge of use of the lingo.

Jumbuck

This is a cryptic clue; a cyyptic clue usually consists of 2 parts: a definition and a subsidiary . 'peer' is the definition; 'is' implies (in the way that cryptic clues work) that the rest of the clue is the subsidiary. Are you new to cryptic crosswords? because with your pedantry I can't believe you'll stick with them for long. Unless you're (= 'you are', not 'your') clutching at straws because you know that you were wrong.

kalahari12

So the definition and the implication were tied together? This gets better. As I said earlier I bow to your superior knowledge of use of the lingo. If you say the english is good who am I to doubt you professor?
I usually crack these puzzles in about five minutes and have been so doing for about 25 years so do not try to lecture me on cryptic puzzles. Goodbye.

eccles

A very interesting & learned discussion-what strikes me is that it was not a good clue & the typo did not help
either.Please be friends!!

Throb

Jumbuck is clearly right. Besides, it would be grammatically correct even if the apostrophe were possessive.

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