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TioMateo | 19:52 Sat 17th Aug 2024 | Crosswords
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Drop a trail of blood? (7) = DESCENT.  I get drop = Descent, and trail =SCENT, but why does blood =DE?

 

Little monkey's spotted leaving river (3) = IMP.  How does IMP(URE) = spotted?

 

Choose cape shunned by African Christian (3).  OPT.  If Coptic = African Christian, How does CIC = Cape?

 

Kind of dash astride horse in St Albans or Telford?  (6). EPONYM.  I get the parsing of EM around PONY, but why St Albans & Telford?

 

Account showing pork pie manufacturer's invoice fairly settled, avoiding fine (5,4).  BILLY LIAR.  I get the parsing completely, but why/how does BILLY LIAR = Account?

 

Light yarn binding closeto door fixture (8,5).  I get the parsing, but have never met the phrase FRICTION MATCH.  It's not in Chambers, but presumably means the same as a NEEDLE MATCH?

 

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Friction Match is in Collins, a reference book often used in the Times  - but the definition there is only 'a match that ignites as a result of the heat produced by friction when it is struck on a rough surface'. There's nothing about fixtures...

For opt, it's simply Copt that is 'a member of the Coptic Church', with the usual C for Cape being dropped.

Pork pie manufacturer = Billy liar

Bill (account) + (f)airly anagram

 

(Thomas) Telford & St Albans are both named after people 

Eponym - I think those are places named after the people, and that's what an eponym is (according to Chambers).

Spotted = dirty =impure

If something is spotted it is impure. Ure is a river which is dropped, leaving Imp for monkey

St Albans and Telford are eponyms, ie named after real people

Bill (invoice) and anag of (f)airly (avoiding "f" for "fine")

For the first one, I think it's just a double definition - and 'of blood' = descent as in your history, your genealogy, bloodline etc.

Friction match - 'fiction' (yarn, binding; containing) '(doo)r' (close) + 'match' (fixture)

To be clear: a friction match is a kind of light. The rest parses as LIK says:  a yarn , story, is a fiction. include "r", and match is a fixture

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