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dancecaller | 21:27 Sun 16th Apr 2006 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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4 down 'From beauty spot on Breton river' - we get Temperance - why?


15 down 'Light shade for volunteer (detailed to keep a little)' - we get 'Off-white' - why?

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The Vale of Tempe is a beauty spot at the foot of Mt Olympus (in mythology anyway)


The Rance is a Breton river, flowing into the sea near St Malo.


Not sure of the other one - 'whit' is a 'little', for starters.

21:38 Sun 16th Apr 2006
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to volunteer = to offer


Not sure how to lose the r, but the rest now fits.

21:43 Sun 16th Apr 2006
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Thanks dzug!


So OFFE means a volunteer? Anyone throw any light on this?

21:44 Sun 16th Apr 2006
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Also 16B 'put on in which US envoy Cyrus progressed'. We get 'advanced' but don't know why
21:45 Sun 16th Apr 2006
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it's de-tailed, i.e. the r taken off!!!
21:46 Sun 16th Apr 2006
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put on = add


Cyrus Vance was a US envoy


so ad - vance -d or progressed.

21:54 Sun 16th Apr 2006
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While you're there ....


We don't understand our answers for 10A and 10B


We got 'spirit' and 'claret'


Explain...

22:00 Sun 16th Apr 2006
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And...


25B: 'writer (pen) keeping quasi-barbarian (RUD????) establishment (CE) for virtue' ... prudence.


Why is RUD a quasi-barbarian?

22:08 Sun 16th Apr 2006
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Two more questions, then we're done ...


3A - is it LUGGER and why?


11A - LISTENER ditto

22:14 Sun 16th Apr 2006
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Clare = county


T(yrone) capital


Just put them together


I'm sure you are right about spirit but the connection to 5B looks tenuous to me. There's a biblical reference to the Holy Spirit having seven virtues - perhaps that's it.

22:16 Sun 16th Apr 2006
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3A - yes. To draw = to pull = to lug


25A RUD - short for RUDE - ie barbarian??


11A not sure other than a listener has to have A16...

22:24 Sun 16th Apr 2006
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and a sten is the gun
22:26 Sun 16th Apr 2006
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we googled Roman virtues and got genius which was translated as "spirit of Rome", it fitted so we put it in, but the "drinks" shouldn't have applied to that half of the clue ????
22:27 Sun 16th Apr 2006
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Yes we got sten, so that leaves lier for "position take"
22:29 Sun 16th Apr 2006
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lie=position & r is a n abbr. for recipe =take
22:35 Sun 16th Apr 2006
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Possibly:


lie = position as in lie of the land


so r = take - perhaps on the lines of recipe (Mrs Beeton - take 5 pounds of butter or whatever it was..)


Let me know if you can make more sense of it...

22:37 Sun 16th Apr 2006
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maybe ... well, must be I suppose.
22:41 Sun 16th Apr 2006
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Lier - a person in a horizontal position.
22:41 Sun 16th Apr 2006
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Ah yes - you'd think recipio would mean receive, but it's take....
22:43 Sun 16th Apr 2006
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ketteldrum and dzug - I think you are right.
22:43 Sun 16th Apr 2006

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