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dafyddapgwilym | 04:35 Fri 20th Oct 2017 | Crosswords
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Grrr. Last one: -
12ac: Designer at last in city like London (4).
I have ?R?N, and assume it's WREN, designer/architect, but I can't parse the rest. Mayday!!
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WREN
Last letter of 'designer' in WEN, old word for an overcrowded city
06:12 Fri 20th Oct 2017
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Nice one. Thank you very much indeed, iminoz. Now a new day beckons... :)
06:47 Fri 20th Oct 2017
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The Great Wen is a disparaging nickname for London. The term was coined in the 1820s by William Cobbett, the radical pamphleteer and champion of rural England. Cobbett saw the rapidly growing city as a pathological swelling on the face of the nation. (A "wen" is a sebaceous cyst.)
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