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Mephisto 2921

I have finished save for 30 across (8) Eg. freedom from foreignisms and sincerity - spicy nibble obliges ?URIT?ES - the only thing I can come up with is PURITIES - ( a plural of purity which Chambers...
18:05 Sun 21st Aug 20164 answers, last by mra1 18:13 Sun 21st Aug 2016
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pilotsteve

Sunday Times 4708

24d Love sex, but not with you and a veggie (5) I have ??I?n
18:09 Sun 21st Aug 20164 answers, last by dannyk13 18:57 Sun 21st Aug 2016
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Tls1139

To my astonishment I have nearly finished this one - at first glance my mind was totally blank - however I am stuck on the last for interlinked clues as follows:- 17 down Competent Australian novelist...
18:01 Fri 19th Aug 201616 answers, last by Mamyalynne 18:32 Fri 19th Aug 2016
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mra1

Times 4707

Simply cannot get the last one - over cooker, alight A?A?N (the last letter presupposes I am correct with ONLY for Just over 50 in US City)
12:29 Sun 14th Aug 20164 answers, last by Calibax 12:32 Sun 14th Aug 2016
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Tls

Ground to a halt with last 5 viz 1 across an inspector in a hurry leaving teh city G?N?B? 24 (3,5) a novel a day is written about what? T??,?O?R?25 a sleuth returning to Rio packs pens ?U?R?? 17 down...
18:42 Sat 13th Aug 201619 answers, last by scorpiojo 19:02 Sat 13th Aug 2016
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mra1

Jumbo Cryptic Times

FALAFEL OR FELAFEL - notes criminal missing out on vegetarian snack? Chambers gives both spelling
15:50 Sat 13th Aug 20168 answers, last by dannyk13 15:53 Sat 13th Aug 2016
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mra1

Times Saturday

26 across (6) Near end of play perhaps finally lose voice A?T?V? The only word I can come up with is active which does not make sense - or does it? (the letters I have come from jurymAst, chainstiTch...
18:35 Sat 06th Aug 20163 answers, last by dannyk13 18:38 Sat 06th Aug 2016
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Tls

Stuck yet again 15 across What Dr Petworth got for his pound? (5,2,8) RA?d? o? L?C????E 23 Across Take a Masefield tragedy to Katowice on vacation? That/s fate (6) A????E 8 across Pears Perhaps? One...
21:26 Fri 05th Aug 201612 answers, last by highbury57 23:49 Fri 05th Aug 2016
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Azed

Stuck on 2 5 down (7) fervent until trapped by a girl A?ATOR? (looks like amatory but dont get the parsing) 32 across (7) Darwinian unit, information held in rectangular compartment ?A?GENE...
18:31 Tue 02nd Aug 20164 answers, last by mra1 18:36 Tue 02nd Aug 2016
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mra1

Club Monthly

Thought for a moment that I would manage this on the first day unaided. Alas it was not to be and I am finally stuck on 3 interconnecting clues viz 21 down (3-3) in Glasgow, crazy guy runs up to pinch...
19:14 Mon 01st Aug 20163 answers, last by Lie-in King 19:31 Mon 01st Aug 2016
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Mephisto

Stuck on 17 Across (8) No longer discussed swapping leader and MP EM?A?LED 16 down (7 - 2 words) Tedious Sabbath popular for ages in the past ?ONGSI?...
16:24 Sun 31st Jul 20163 answers, last by mra1 16:32 Sun 31st Jul 2016
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Tls

Stuck on 3 in top left corner, ditto bottom left corner as follows:- 9 ac (5) Called for Duke to go after Cesario P????; 2 down (5) Poor Tom Wolfe had at last turrned around paper E???R; 3 down (5,4)...
20:15 Fri 29th Jul 201612 answers, last by Mamyalynne 20:36 Fri 29th Jul 2016
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mra1

Today's Times

totally stumped on the last one An Australian native's at edge of outback in semi-desert K?R?O
12:45 Tue 26th Jul 20166 answers, last by dannyk13 12:51 Tue 26th Jul 2016
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Azed

stuck on last one 33 across (8) pasta, chopped fine, appropriate shop stocked? ?A?EL?NI
19:47 Mon 25th Jul 20165 answers, last by scorpiojo 19:53 Mon 25th Jul 2016
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Tls

Stuck on top right and bottom left corner viz11 across Dashing Otto's Florence's admirer T?O??; 8 down Rain is my subject - Lake Erie's in a storm E???L?; 18 down A religious leader in Ephesus who...
20:30 Sat 23rd Jul 201613 answers, last by highbury57 20:45 Sat 23rd Jul 2016
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Azed

stuck on the last 2 interconnecting solutions - 28 across (5) Number included among ordered journal volumes BAN?? and 24 down (5) Mugger attacked - only one pound taken ??LON [second letter = last...
12:37 Mon 18th Jul 20164 answers, last by scorpiojo 12:42 Mon 18th Jul 2016
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mra1

Saturday Times

Stuck on 2: 8 across (4) Report of land when crossing Pole (B)A(N)G? It's right for report but I dont get the land bit! and 20 across (2,4) Letter-writer's way with heartbroken recipient of one?...
20:25 Sat 16th Jul 20169 answers, last by fiction-factory 20:32 Sat 16th Jul 2016
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Tls

Fared much better today but still stuck on 2 interconnecting clues viz 16 down (8) Pope's Cotta, perhaps put on before Psalm 51 ?I?E???E and 25 across Net product of eleven midsize Scottish Banks...
18:12 Fri 15th Jul 20167 answers, last by scorpiojo 18:21 Fri 15th Jul 2016
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Azed

Me again!. Complete save for 1 across (9) - Rough old evening in Paris for Notre Dame dredger? - ?SP?RSO??; 7 (5) down - Woolly donned by gaucho, an endless emanation coming up? - ?UAN? [the first...
19:38 Mon 11th Jul 20163 answers, last by mra1 19:50 Mon 11th Jul 2016
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General Knowledge Jumbo

First time I have been unable to finish it - stuck on 6 viz 6 down(4) Kind of font used in the Sunday Times crossword solution S?N?: 14 Across Winter sports implement similar to a snowboard M?N?S?I or...
20:33 Sun 10th Jul 201619 answers, last by mra1 21:04 Sun 10th Jul 2016

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