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[GrunDMC]

11a how do you get "too" from very small or very small bodies & 17d how do you get hard times from set in outskirts of halifax briefly? Can't be arsed to think very small bodies outskirts of halifax, I mean too hard...thanks!

[bibblebub]

17d) the outskirts of the word 'halifax' are H and X

H stands for HARD when used to describe pencils e.g. HB

X is the symbol used for multiplication e.g. 2 time 4

[bibblebub]

(meant to put TIMES in that last line)

i would need the complete clue for 11a

[GrunDMC]

Thanks Bibblebub! Yeah, that's good!

[GrunDMC]

Schemes covering very small bodies of soldiers. Platoons.

[glasman]

Pla(too)ns

[bibblebub]

'too' is synonymous with 'very' - defn 4 here http://www.tfd.com/too

so the definition part of the clue includes 'small' i.e. it's small bodies of soldiers

[GrunDMC]

Thanks both! Saved me thinking HH very hard :-)

[glasgowcop]

11ac. Schemes=plans ; too is a bit obscure for my liking.

19dn. H=hard. x = times