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mra1 | 21:27 Sun 30th Dec 2012 | Crosswords
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Have completed but dont get the wordplay for 14Ac (4) Play at Headingly remained with one Knight replacing another. I have LAI? and have settled for LAIN ie 1 (k)night - can anyone enlighten me please
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Try LAIK. 1 definition is To play (in the sense opposed to work)
14:37 Mon 31st Dec 2012
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Laik is Yorkshire dialect for play (i.e. not working), so that might be where the Headingley connection comes from:
http://silsden.net/yorkshiredialect/dictionary.htm#L
14:44 Mon 31st Dec 2012
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Laik (Yorkshire dialect for play) replace k with n
14:45 Mon 31st Dec 2012
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Bookbinder. Laik means to play as in I'm laiking cricket today.
14:47 Mon 31st Dec 2012
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Thank you for the explanation, dannyk13. I was born and raised in Yorkshire.
14:48 Mon 31st Dec 2012

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