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Azed 2,522

Ireland lacking tail winds, one borne aloft thereon noted AIR-A-E I can see airwave, airbase or airfare but I can't fit the clue to any of them. It annoys me when I can find the obscure words but get...
17:18 Wed 14th Oct 20204 answers, last by JF85 17:28 Wed 14th Oct 2020
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Training with computers, very good for processing crude petroleum (11) I have CAT-(G)-C-ING but would comfortably swap the G for an R. I can't think of any word that would fit, never mind one that...
12:02 Wed 23rd Sep 20203 answers, last by JF85 12:13 Wed 23rd Sep 2020
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Stuck with three letters to find :-( 12A. Strain wrong for toughened glass (5) I have silt-, but only the s and t are definite. 19A. Stiff points, with being returned got up mostly (6) mi-ros, only...
14:35 Thu 27th Aug 20209 answers, last by iminoz 21:12 Thu 27th Aug 2020
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Special treatment year after senior citizen admits commotion (10) I have Obotherapy, from bother inside oap + y, but neither my '93 Chambers nor Google seem to think it is a word. All but b, r and p...
14:22 Mon 17th Aug 20202 answers, last by JF85 14:29 Mon 17th Aug 2020
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Bats, far from attractive? Awkward girl acts as sweeper (7) M-r-o-s...
13:29 Wed 29th Jul 20203 answers, last by JF85 13:37 Wed 29th Jul 2020
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29 Down: Portion of towel crumpled up in corner of sheet (4) I have the answer as CLEW, found in the clue reversed and also meaning the corner of a sail, but is this a rare error for the Azed? A...
12:54 Mon 29th Jun 20202 answers, last by JF85 13:04 Mon 29th Jun 2020
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Yellowish colour displayed by bread in tin (7) Carat-n. Presuming 'can' is tin; what is the bread, and why is this colour not in my dictionary?...
20:52 Mon 04th May 20206 answers, last by JF85 20:58 Mon 04th May 2020
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Struggling

Ground to a halt with one letter to find :-( With cereal disease dry stalk leads to thin yield: b-nty I can find three possible solutions, but none of them seem to provide the whole answer. In order...
20:35 Sun 15th Mar 20205 answers, last by fiction-factory 20:51 Sun 15th Mar 2020
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19D Squares cut up into two small ones (7) I have S_AR_ES. Is it scarves (carve in s,s)? 26D Non-standard currency, silver, foot from side to side (5) I have _E_GS. If I put in Ag for silver, I can...
23:07 Sun 01st Mar 20209 answers, last by ProfessorMaisie 23:36 Sun 01st Mar 2020
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21d. Skirts for men matter but are seen as divisive (6) Pareos and pareus both fit and the fifth letter is unchecked. 'Are' dividing 'pos' or 'pus'. Is pus 'matter'? That's worse than saltbutter....
22:39 Sun 19th Jan 20203 answers, last by Spoffy 22:49 Sun 19th Jan 2020
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Eu Security Force

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49076294 It appears the US does not consider the safety of our shipping to be any of their concern; our ship was seized in response to UK capturing an Iranian vessel....
20:03 Mon 22nd Jul 201911 answers, last by CrapAtCryptics 09:59 Tue 23rd Jul 2019
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13a. Cable to stop short: 'Henry, I ...' and Eliza's disturbed issue in bits (12) I have HALTERIA.IZE and assume the missing letter is L, but why? It starts with an anagram of HAL and ends with an...
12:52 Mon 08th Jul 20195 answers, last by JJ109 14:50 Tue 09th Jul 2019
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Everyman

I don't know if Everyman reads this, but 'old' last week and 'in' this; surely words in the answer should not appear, in exactly the same form, in the clue? 3,795 gets my vote for the worst Everyman...
17:45 Sun 07th Jul 20193 answers, last by Mamyalynne 09:23 Wed 10th Jul 2019
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Stuck on last two. 3D. Spenser' equal trembles to be cast off by one such? (5) Chambers has 'Peare', which fits my letters and means equal, but what is all the trembling stuff? (The letters I have are...
23:41 Sun 23rd Jun 20195 answers, last by JF85 00:04 Mon 24th Jun 2019
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Ve-Day Bank Holiday

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48631198 Additional bank holidays were created for royal weddings and the Queen's jubilee, but this is the second time that VE-Day commemoration has been marked by...
10:22 Fri 14th Jun 201925 answers, last by JF85 18:40 Fri 14th Jun 2019
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18d Fine Shakespearean as part of Sebastian touring Ulster? (7) I have inconie as an a.ternative spelling of incony, but I don't get why. At a stretch, 'in' could be 'as part of', and 'ie' the...
23:42 Sun 09th Jun 20193 answers, last by JF85 23:57 Sun 09th Jun 2019
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Hypothetically, ...

If you knew a foreigner had called your wife nasty, but you then found he was visiting this country and you found you were both invited to the same party, how might you respond?
11:20 Mon 03rd Jun 201920 answers, last by JF85 12:35 Mon 03rd Jun 2019
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Children's Lives

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48129280 Gavin Williamson apparently swore on his children's lives that he did not leak information. Irrespective of whether leaked or did or not, is this an...
10:51 Thu 02nd May 201954 answers, last by JF85 18:02 Thu 02nd May 2019
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Impossible?

Impossible (BBC1) today, an American got a question about battles fought on American soil, then a wheelchair user got a question about Paralympians. What are the odds?...
15:00 Mon 29th Apr 20194 answers, last by JF85 15:56 Mon 29th Apr 2019
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Never tried a Printer's Devilry before, but with lots of help I am now left with two unchecked letters. Without explaining the full task, can someone who has completed it help with: 21d I have oi?ing....
21:40 Sat 13th Apr 20195 answers, last by JF85 21:59 Sat 13th Apr 2019

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