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Beaney | 01:15 Wed 06th Jan 2016 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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75a. The resort has grand food (4) ?P?M. (Can't imagine its SPAM even if 'spa' is a resort!)
64d. Is the cardinal punctual? Not quite (6) ?E?R?Y. 'Nearly' would fit but where does 'cardinal' come into it?
88d. The firm took in Melody? Capital! (5) ??I?O. Cairo (that's a capital) might fit but how?
Also, presuming the following guesses are correct, could someone kindly explain any of them?!
46a. Go back after a hot porker (3) ?O? Why 'hog' and not 'goh' not to mention 'dog' and 'god'?
79a. Final blessing seen as banal in Laois (4,5) L?S???T?S. 'Last rites' it may be but can't figure out where 'rites' comes from!
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64 N Early
88 Co with air (melody) Cairo
88. Yes. Firm...co. Around air...melody.
75. Spa+M...1000...grand in slang.
64. Yes. N...cardinal point+early.
46 Go back to H A porker - pig - hog
46a Hog

H - hot
og - go reversed
Go, back reverse. Of. After h...hot= hog, porker
79a Banal - (las)t rite(s)
79 Lass (Laois) around trite (banal)
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Many thanks to Davemano, sandyRoe, shoota and scorpiojo. You all decoded brilliantly! After posting the questions and considering the hour it was, I went to bed, little realiz!ing that within minutes (nay, seconds) you had it all wrapped up!
My sanity is on the mend - thanks to you all!

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