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Chaseman | 08:11 Sat 11th Nov 2023 | Crosswords
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Two short solutions that annoyingly I can't work out.

1d Tabloid newspaper is carrying leader on Rupert Murdoch ?R?S. The Star is a tabloid and an anagram would be ARTS but why Rupert Murdoch?

28d Head from German city going north, not east N?S? Sort of think Essen must be in there somewhere.

Finally 15a is Great Grandma undergoes gradual change OSM?S?S is either Osmosis or Osmoses but cannnot parse.

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15a  grandma Moses.....os  = outsize  great 

osmoses  

28 ness

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Yes I got OS as Outsize but who is Grandma Moses?

essen reversed minus e^^^^

she was a folk artist 

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Just looked up Ness, didn't know it meant headland, thanks. I see now that it is indeed Essen written upside down minus the E

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Thanks Mallyh re Grandma Moses, any ideas on Rupert Murdoch?

1d IRIS (murdoch)

I = tabloid newspaper

R(upert, leader)

is

1 Iris but can't parse it

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Thanks JJ I did not think of the I as a tabloid but i suppose it is!

I'm not very happy about "OSMOSES" as the answer for 15a.

 

Yes I get OS as being outsize/great.  I also get MOSES as being a (great) grandma. But if "gradual change" (in the singular) is the definition, then MOSES would need to be (unjustifiably)  changed to MOSIS.  I know I'm being pedantic, but these things are important.  I have put OSMOSES as my answer, because I believe that is what the answer will turn out to be, but it's sloppy and I don't like it.

Osmose is a verb, so Osmoses = undergoes gradual change...

PS I should have said 'osmose is a verb, confirmed in Chambers'.

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