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[whordley]

Yet more!!! 1.Substance that has been sucked in 9
2. Instrument used by surgeon for scraping bones 6 3. Members of early 20th C poetry movement 8

[baitress]

2 - xyster
3 - imagists
1 - I have absorbate

[Puzzled001]

Absorbate
Xyster
Imagists
Clue numbers in future ,please

[Aquagility]

Absorbate or adsorbate - any views?

[BigDave44]

The online site accepts ABSORBATE

[BigDave44]

This puzzle includes the names of at least 14 crossword setters!

[Lie-in King]

Hi Dave! Hope you're keeping well? :-)

Apologies to whordley for the extra traffic...

[BigDave44]

I'm fine LiK. How about yourself?

I emailed you at your yahoo address a while back - you can get in touch through the contact page on the blog @ bigdave44.com and I can send you this puzzle.

Regards

Dave

(and apologies from me whordley )

[Slogger]

definitely adsorbate

[Lie-in King]

?!?!? I have a Yahoo address? Don't remember setting that up - I'll pop over later...

...Thanks, I'm well at the moment & I managed to snag the garage's only Tel today, so have the puzzle done, but I appreciate the offer as they don't always have a copy!

[BigDave44]

Sorry, my mistake. It was hotmail.

Slogger, absorbate is the answer that the Telegraph are expecting.

Chambers defines:

* absorb ~ to suck in, to swallow up, to imbibe, to take in, to incorporate

* adsorb ~ of a solid or a liquid, to accumulate on its surface a thin film of the molecules of a gas or liquid that is in contact with it

This would suggest that they are correct, although this is not always the case!

[Puzzled001]

Sorry to take so long ,Have had trouble logging in on IE. I'll now go along with 'adsorbate, as it's correct tense. Sorry for getting it wrong earlier

[BigDave44]

How does a noun have a correct tense?

[Lie-in King]

I'm pretty certain I've not had an e-mail from you Dave?..

...I do check my junk box regularly as well, just in case

[BigDave44]

LiK

Message resent - check now.

[Aquagility]

Sorry, Slogger and Puzzled001, but since I raised the doubt originally we had better be clear about this. The Telegraph accepts AB, and rejects AD, as BigDave has said.

[Puzzled001]

Big Dave, Tense,? I meant the clue is written in the past, as ln ,'has been' I think it's six of one etc. have looked in Chambers,Collins and Cassells and all are of a muchness. Bfn

[geo0939]

All this time and energy expended and not one response from the questioner.

[Aquagility]

That's about par for the course, I'd say.