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Quizmonkey | 17:20 Tue 19th Sep 2006 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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First time I've ever asked! This week's EV: 15ac One regularly turned round by the car port (4). I have T-RE. One is I or A. Regularly turned is TRE. So either TIRE or TARE. But car port??? Is it me?
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Could it not be Tyre, Quizmonkey? Tyre being a port as well as turned round by the car?
Qm Tyre is an ancient port... car tyre
Hi Quizmonkey,
There is a port in Lebanon named TYRE.Don't know if this is of any help. Good Luck.
Val.
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I considered that but where does the Y come from? Also no indication of US spelling.

Unless you mean that it's just a double cryptic definition and there's no wordplay involved - if so it's really sent me down the wrong avenue! All credit to the setter.
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Thanks to all incidentally!
The Tyre in Lebanon has alternative spellings--Y and i
It's good to know you are human and not a monkey!
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Some might disagree :) I think I'll settle for tyre - I wonder if the setter realised how misleading his clue was? And how many people will put tire...?
Let me take this rare opportunity to ask if you set crosswords for a national newspaper? If so, do you use a pseudonym?
Hi QM - surely it is TYRE because the clue should read 'one reg turned round by the car... a tyre is regularly turned round by (driving) a car and it is also a port!
To expand - I was more than a little curious with the simian link with Araucaria - by chance or by design?
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Hi Crofter.

No, I'm not a national newspaper compiler. Until a couple of years back I set crosswords for three of those glossy county magazines that you see in Smiths (though few people seem to buy - apart from dentists for their waiting rooms?). They were general cryptics with a county-thematic element. Unfortunately the publishing group eventually decided to centralise everything for economic reasons - but I think my puzzles had probably run their course anyway.

Now I just create crosswords whenever anyone wants one - for inhouse magazines, theatre programmes etc. or for friends at Christmas and birthdays. I set either under my real name or the pseudonym Cliew (pronounced clue!). Quizmonkey's just my board name (due to something of a chimp fixation) and has no link to the Guardian compiler!

Cheers.
Thanks for that!
I used to set crosswords for a free paper for the local area called "Pubscene". I always fancied going under the Pseudonym "Jigsaw"- but never did!

Now I only set them for friends when asked. The most unusual request was for a memorial gathering for someone who had not been particularly regilious but had enjoyed doing crosswords right up to the last!
They had a break in the "service" for ten minutes to do my crossword!

There were starred squares, the letters of which formed an anagram of her name!

Regards

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