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blueberry2 | 15:46 Tue 29th Aug 2006 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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49d English succeeded in slowing down the second test? (5) R?S?T
I think this is RESIT but now am wondering if it's RESET with the E in REST.

29d Brave, big time! (5) O?A?E

Can anyone help please with an explanation.

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Osage... Indian ... Big= OS+AGE (time)
I've gone with resit being second test.
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Exactly, but how do you explain the first part of the clue. I am still wavering. Many thanks to you both. Hope someone will come up with another slant on it.
I have been looking at E (English) & S (succeeded) inside RIT ( Ritardando - slowing down musically) leading to RESIT (second test). It looks plausible but I have not been able to establish the "succeeded" element.
Now you've got me thinking blueberry and I have the the perfect solution.
Since I submit online I'll just re-submit with the alteration. I checked with the Times and members may submit any amounts of entries, just a matter of luck which one they pick (if any). This doesn't help you of course, sorry.
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Thank you crofter. I had only thought of rallentando, forgotten about ritardando. Just looked up S in the dictionary, and it does stand for succeeded, so I am pretty convinced it's resit after all.

All finished now! Good luck everyone! Thanks again
Good, that means I don't have to re-submit after all. Thanks for the RIT I hadn't thought of it myself.

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