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Indian Air Police hurt! (6) = APACHE how is this the answer explain. Ascent, I hear, eroded in prevailing climate (7) = CLIMATE (climb it hom.) how is this the answer explain. and what purpose does...
20:24 Tue 24th Mar 20093 answers, last by novalis 20:29 Tue 24th Mar 2009
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Teased beloved about last gifts before december (8) = pestered how is that the answer explain
20:16 Tue 24th Mar 20091 answer, last by novalis 20:18 Tue 24th Mar 2009
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Teased beloved about last gifts before december (8) = beloved how is that the answer explain
20:07 Tue 24th Mar 20092 answers, last by dbrods 20:09 Tue 24th Mar 2009
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Buffet job is part of joke (5,4) = PUNCH LINE Name English heel in other words (7) = ELEANOR? how are these the answers. explain
19:56 Tue 24th Mar 20091 answer, last by novalis 19:58 Tue 24th Mar 2009
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boy keeps quarter for bullets (4) = RYAN? continues to terminal with #4 password (5) = RESTS? are these the correct answers and if so how do you know?
19:36 Tue 24th Mar 20092 answers, last by JMR27 19:43 Tue 24th Mar 2009
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Special Interstate crew, for example (9) = SPECIMEN Can someone explain to me how this is the answer.
00:08 Wed 18th Mar 20092 answers, last by mac44 00:16 Wed 18th Mar 2009
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Key part of scale carried by silent rival (7) = E+MU[LA]TE Can someone explain to me how this is the answer.
23:59 Tue 17th Mar 20091 answer, last by sarumite 00:03 Wed 18th Mar 2009
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Get rich vessel (including spare) (5,2) = CLEAN UP How is this the answer. Please explain.
23:27 Mon 16th Mar 20093 answers, last by tyrepill 23:31 Mon 16th Mar 2009
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Pressures in country-side: over cheese, oddly (7) = CO+ER+CES Can someone explain to me where the CO and ER come from?
23:00 Mon 16th Mar 20091 answer, last by dundurn 23:12 Mon 16th Mar 2009
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Single senior manager meeting employee's leader is nervous (2,4) = ON EDGE > ONE (single) + DG ??? + E what would the DG stand for, unless I am wrong.
02:08 Fri 20th Feb 20091 answer, last by auntflo 02:09 Fri 20th Feb 2009
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Tom's sour type of pie (4) Is the answer TART? It makes sense as a double def of sour and type of pie, but tom does not fit in.
01:49 Fri 20th Feb 20091 answer, last by auntflo 01:51 Fri 20th Feb 2009
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cryptic crosswords

So I just started doing cryptic crosswords about a month ago. I do the saturday toronto star crosswords every week, but the clues do not seem to be original and some dont even make sense. can anyone...
01:01 Thu 19th Feb 20092 answers, last by JDOvengloves 01:13 Thu 19th Feb 2009
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Returned dark elf fur displaying parasite (5,5) The sound of a sneeze and the sound of what's needed! (7) Clever British conservative (6) Mark's second vehicle (4) Please EXPLAIN how you got the...
05:04 Wed 18th Feb 20097 answers, last by sarumite 12:51 Wed 18th Feb 2009
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Made more as a grammarian (10) Is the answer pluralized? Can someone EXPLAIN how this would be the right answer.
19:52 Mon 16th Feb 20092 answers, last by dr b 20:06 Mon 16th Feb 2009
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Pedestrian crossing? (10) I am stumped when it comes to &lit questions. I need the solution and PLEASE TELL ME HOW YOU GOT TO IT.
21:47 Sat 14th Feb 20099 answers, last by dbrods 22:15 Sat 14th Feb 2009
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Water vapour runs in flower (6) = STREAM (flow-er) R(uns) inside STEAM (water vapour) Is my solution correct?
21:38 Sat 14th Feb 20096 answers, last by dbrods 21:42 Sat 14th Feb 2009
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Resolved to mend 6 differently (10) determined? Is my answer right. I took 6 letters from differently DETERmIned and mixed them with mend, but this solution seems too confusing to be true.
21:07 Sat 14th Feb 200914 answers, last by mamyalynne 21:42 Sat 14th Feb 2009
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Flirtatious woman's new in compound (4) Drunk from well at top of town (3) Piece about secretary cut (6)
05:27 Mon 02nd Feb 20092 answers, last by elgreco 07:12 Mon 02nd Feb 2009
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Servant has first put on a boring thing when preparing batter (3,7) D?N ?R?D?A? Gives one leaving furs, say (7) C?N?E?S
20:00 Wed 28th Jan 20098 answers, last by dbrods 05:29 Mon 02nd Feb 2009
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cryptic clues

Servant has first put on a boring thing when preparing batter (3,7) Rescued northern art galley from waste (9) The wily fox - primarily cunning, is a pest in the garden (8) Gives one leaving furs, say...
19:50 Wed 28th Jan 20094 answers, last by Lie-in King 20:00 Wed 28th Jan 2009

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