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S Tel Cryptic 2515

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gardenknowin | 10:24 Tue 22nd Dec 2009 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Really stuck on two 19A Milkmaids in song and Santa's 5, for example (6) ?C?E??; and 20D Waits at Christmas, for example, for some birds (7) ??N?E?S. Many thanks and a Merry Christmas to all you clever folk!
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20 = Singers presumably (waits are carol singers)
10:26 Tue 22nd Dec 2009
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19a octets
10:27 Tue 22nd Dec 2009
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19 could be octett but probably relates to 5a or 5d
10:28 Tue 22nd Dec 2009
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Octets doesn't make sense!
10:29 Tue 22nd Dec 2009
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I took it that they were both groups of 8 - maids a milking and Santa's reindeer
10:31 Tue 22nd Dec 2009
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Thanks both - but why octets? Can't rationalise it!
10:32 Tue 22nd Dec 2009
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Ah I see - apologies. So 5 was something like deer?
10:32 Tue 22nd Dec 2009
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8 maids a milking - and Santa had 8 deer - but what's 5a or 5d???!
10:33 Tue 22nd Dec 2009
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5d was reindeer
10:33 Tue 22nd Dec 2009
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Oldred, think you're spot on there. Many thanks. And to you others - but I ain't got a 5A !! Blessings for Christmas GK
10:37 Tue 22nd Dec 2009

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