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Gill55 | 10:53 Wed 24th Oct 2018 | Crosswords
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3d Fooled college girl about meditation path ((7) ?o?e???
10a Rapacious females so goody goody when bounders are about (7) ?a????? (something with cads in the answer???
13a. Fancy putting forward answer that's pertinent (2,3) ?d/??? Ad hoc?
14d. Old write makes Egyptian leader flee (6) ??o?e?i? Obelia?

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10a.Har pi es
13 ad lib

I think 14d could be odessa
3d cozoned
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I have 20 across as anticlockwise which would make 14d o?e?i?
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I have 8a as leathern??
I don't have the crossword Gill, so don't know the clues, I could be wrong
3d.Cozened - zen(meditation path) inside co-ed(college girl)
I had a typo danny :(
14d should be 'old writ'
13a.Ad rem - dream(fancy) with'a' to front
Thanks- I'd wrongly assumed it should be "old writer".
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Thanks all. Had to go to work and asked hubby to sign out but forgot to ask him to say thanks and post!
Could anyone, especially dannyk13, explain "harpies" as answer to 10a? It's totally passing me by. I know it's correct, just cannot see how clue relates.
Got the hares as bounders, (a bit tenuous), but where does pi come in?
Hares (bounders) around (nice as) pi
^ Synonyms of 'goody-goody'
prig, puritan, prude, stuffed shirt
sanctimonious, pious, pi, self-righteous
Thanks guys for explanation.
I would never have worked that out.

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