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Clueless

31ac Trees like birch, as some might say (5) ?IL?A 32dn Creature left to drown in Scottish creek (4) ??LI tia...
21:44 Wed 01st Nov 20172 answers, last by joeconrad 12:31 Thu 02nd Nov 2017
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Stumped For Four

10a Fashionable skirts first out in odd, fan-shaped arrangement (9) ?H?P?D?UM Shipsdrum? Don't get it. 18ac Learners in boat losing stern on river (6) T??EES (Tirees?) 6dn Hot on river for pundits (6)...
11:11 Tue 02nd May 20176 answers, last by joeconrad 11:58 Tue 02nd May 2017
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Stumped For One

1 down Improper bondage games, eg, with topless old Scots quean (6) S?UTT? Slutty, smutty?...
16:21 Wed 19th Apr 20175 answers, last by Mamyalynne 17:52 Wed 19th Apr 2017
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joeconrad

Mephisto

Struggling to finish. 15A Take over small mountain peaks (4) ?MBS; 17A Small youngsow and fish brought back (6) LE?EL?; 27D son replacing daughter, cooked a herb (4) ?IDA...
14:45 Wed 22nd Mar 20175 answers, last by joeconrad 14:58 Wed 22nd Mar 2017
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joeconrad

Sorry

Re mephisto 23dn letters A?RADE
15:14 Wed 22nd Feb 20176 answers, last by scorpiojo 17:13 Wed 22nd Feb 2017
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joeconrad

Last One

4dn Setting in a key of G at the end of nothing to be boosted. I have ISLI-G. Perhaps something else is wrong, but I cannot see how
20:48 Wed 30th Apr 20146 answers, last by joeconrad 21:34 Wed 30th Apr 2014
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Joeconrad

Have I gone wrong somewhere? 15dn Lizard gets painful swelling sitting on one stinger (9 I have -A(?)---IWASP Cannot find any inspiration anywhere. You should have been my first hope, not last. I...
15:12 Wed 04th Sep 20136 answers, last by joeconrad 16:31 Wed 04th Sep 2013
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Mephisto 2747

Puzzled ...if 4 down answer is ARROWS and 2 down is ROWT what on earth is 10ac: A particular outflow from a hooter or cuckoo (9) o-orr-oe-
20:42 Wed 24th Apr 20133 answers, last by joeconrad 21:55 Wed 24th Apr 2013
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kayakamina

Araucaria - Sad News

The brilliant Guardian setter has used his crossword today to announce that he terminal cancer. I have been wrestling with his puzzles for years and he has given me a great deal of enjoyment (and...
12:45 Fri 11th Jan 201322 answers, last by humbersloop 19:21 Fri 18th Jan 2013
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joeconrad

What's Wrong?

Adrift in the bottom corner. If 15d is cowslips, what then is 33a s-sh, or is 16d trindles or 25d truth wrong?
21:43 Wed 09th Jan 201313 answers, last by frugalfred 23:37 Wed 09th Jan 2013
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joeconrad

onedown

1 down Something in front of eye floating? Hospital's wanting this perhaps ---s--g--ne...
17:22 Wed 31st Oct 20124 answers, last by Baldric 16:50 Thu 01st Nov 2012
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bionicbunny

mephisto 2681

17d is driving me mad. I have ??ca????.Oracle is confused about very old home-grown champ. Sure it is an anagram of oracle and is or oracle and vo but cannot find anything. Help please
17:12 Mon 16th Jan 20123 answers, last by joeconrad 12:57 Tue 17th Jan 2012
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joeconrad

Am I alone?

Am I the only one not to get 19ac S-ELE? Is it stele-a handle?
19:20 Tue 29th Mar 20117 answers, last by joeconrad 20:04 Tue 29th Mar 2011
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4poster

Mephisto 2639

Last two clues . 10 Down. Tin money goes from ha'penny rent which is delivered by hand(9,two words) S_AIL_AI_ snail mail (sn for tin) and then no more thoughts.! 33 Across. In Morocco he drew it with...
19:44 Sun 27th Mar 20115 answers, last by kayakamina 14:11 Mon 28th Mar 2011
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joeconrad

Sunday Times Mephisto 2624 Tuesday December 14th 2010

Just need 2dn. Can it be legate. If so why
16:17 Tue 14th Dec 20107 answers, last by cupid04 17:06 Wed 15th Dec 2010

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