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[jenniferd]

Am having problems with 3 questions - 2 may be due to my lack of French!!!
39a Ready in Rouen-before "to wear" ?R?T
45a Approximately in Amiens ? P?U ?R?S
50a Heads on a square base, usually double-faced
H?R?A?

As commented on earlier I also noticed the answers to 13a and 10d from last months crossword did not match. Wonder how the winner got it RIGHT or did he get it WRONG????

[JMR27]

39a prete
45a a peu pres

[mazie]

50a Hermea ?

[Tichfield]

50a is HERMAE

The plural of HERMA

a head or bust (originally of Hermes) on a square base, often double-faced.

[slaney]

As regards your last comment, jenniferd
see here
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puz zles/Crosswords/Question542533.html

[jenniferd]

Thank you all very much. I would certainly never have got the first 2 and probably not HERMAE either.
Presume 39a is PRET as only have 4 spaces. Is there a connection to Rouen or Amiens in the answers?

[Tichfield]

Only that those places are in France I think.

[JMR27]

hi jenniferd - should be pret ...

[jenniferd]

Very interesting slaney. I too had a fight with 47a until the penny dropped that the question had an error. Never checked 22d date - just had the right letters so put in the answer.
By the way do you live near the Slaney. I come from Waterford but relations live near Ballymore Eustace (Liffey runs thru' farm) and Dunlavin.

[slaney]

Hi jenniferd..not any more ..I was born a Slaneysider (in Wexford), but have lived on the other side of the Irish Sea for some time now.