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The Spectator 2145

grandilo | 16:44 Sat 18th Jan 2014 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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Some help with the following, please:

ACROSS:

16 Bones to bury beside rayflowers ( 1 ): ??????C???I

39 Mother paid for eastern plantain ( 7 ) : ?A?O??E

Many thanks in advance!

Polymath

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grumpy01

16) Interradii
18) Matooke

grandilo

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Many thanks, grumpy01, for 16! I got 39 after my post to you and I also have 3 down which is a partial anagram. Thanks again for responding!

grandilo

Question Author

Some help with the following, please! I do not want the answers, I just want some hints...Some answers are swirling in my head, but I need to corroborate. Many thanks in advance!

ACROSS:
11 Jacket of lass in Alaska ( 6 ) ??U?A?
20 Libertine close to fun river port(5) ?O?C?
22 ...measures pigeons losing height ( 5 ) O??R?
33 Perhaps cold Dumpynose will spit ( 7 ) I?LT???

DOWN:
5 Choppy sea inundates post office and promenade ( 5 ) P??E?
23 Writer has to watch over Harry ( 8 ) ????D??L

shaneystar2

I'm no good at hints so....
Anorak
Rouen
Omers
Illness
Paseo
Stendhal

grandilo

Question Author

Thanks, shanetstar2! I am on my way now! 13 DOWN (?R?H? ) is giving me stress as it seems to upset the pair 24/27 ( HIT/TEW?). Elsewhere, I have worked out the "two in a row" with Shakespeare, Birds, Waterways or ditches...Tell me if I am on the right path and take me out of my misery! Thanks again!

bibblebub

13d) ortho
24/27) rot ten

grandilo

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13 DOWN : Plate musketeer drops outside ( 5 )

ORTHO

Thanks for this answer, but I am still trying to rationalize it...How to justify it?

Cannot see the "two in a row" with ROT and TEN

My MEW and HIT go out of the window!

bibblebub

ORTHOS = (p)ortho(s)

the preamble says that one of the pairs of unclued lights forms a single word so giving Rotten Row

bibblebub

type - didn't mean to put plural of ortho

bibblebub

even the typo correction has a typo

grandilo

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Thank you, Mr. Spock! Very clever, indeed! I see the light now...some of these clues are so tricky, and that's the fun of it! I should do more of these to get the hang of how the setters think!

Litcrit

I was assuming TEA POT - as in 'storm in a ..' but expect it is ROTTEN after all.
I cannot work out whether 38A is SNEE or SNEB, as both seem possible.

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