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patchett | 08:10 Sun 05th Dec 2010 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Got to give in and ask for help.Stuck on two.Please can any one help?

53)An alloy of copper and zinc simulating gold,also means sham,in bad taste
64)Allusive name once,and still is,given to the British press.

Answer is,or contains,a place name
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how many letters? The press were, and sometimes still are, referred to as the Fourth Estate
64) Fleet Street ?
An alloy of copper and zinc is brass but that's not a place name
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Sorry janbee.9 letters for question 53,none given for 64.
Thank you bibblebub(Love your avatar chage-never know what next will be)Think I'll have to go with Fleet Street,it is a place after all isn't it
53) PINCHBECK is that alloy and also means sham http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pinchbeck but don't know about being in bad taste. And there is a Pinchbeck in Lincolnshire.

(There are various places called Fleet too, such as the one in Hampshire.)
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I could kick myself.Saw Pinchbeck in a crossword answer but miscounted the letters.
I live just up the road from Pinchbeck-well-bout 10 miles.Thank you bibblebub you're a star
you're very welcome
can anyone help with my last 4 ?
Q43. Name once given to the industrial Midland counties of England
Q85. A die loaded at the corner to ensure that certain numbers are thrown (6)
Q88. A protozoal disease of cattle transmitted by ticks (5,5)
Q98. Which Suffolk port fell into the sea, but still sells fish and chips (7)
Thanks in anticipation
I know someone who can lol
43 - you don't say how many letters, but Black Country?
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Hi burgess3334.Have got
43)Mercia
85)Fulham
88)Texas Fever
98)Dunwich Now whether they are right or not is another matter!!!
Still not happy with answer for 45 the sheep one
Thanks for those Patchet, I'll go with them. I have Somerset Horn for 45. I missed Q49. A beard under the chin and jaw named after a london prison. (7.6) if you can help
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Hi burgess if you just enter the question as it is in google its there.

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