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powyco | 06:45 Sat 02nd Sep 2006 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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this website ? www.oneacross.com. It can be remarkably stupid, but often comes up with help. Worth a look.
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I find it completely useless.The idea is fantastic but it doesn't do the job it should.It's a great shame.:(
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Strangely enough, I've sometimes found it useless on simple things, but quite often it's helped with more abstruse stuff. It seems to have a big vocabulary base.
i find
http://www.onelook.com/
a much better one as you can put a ? for letters missing and if it gives many answers you can narrow the search by putting a word from the clue in a box
jan
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Thanks, jan1956, I'll give this a try.
I use it on and off. Does give some funny answers but managed to get two for me today - material IRONSTONE; and surveillance equipment SNOOPERSCOPE (it also came up with ENTOPTOSCOPE) but only when I put scope at the end - it didn't get them with just the 'miising' letters (I assumed it was a scope).

I also use this one a lot:-

http://www.a2zwordfinder.com/
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Thanks for the alternative site, wideboy. I'll try it. I'm just wondering what crossword came up with the .'.....scope' words. Sunday Times ?
Yes, the Times.

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