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The Oldie 330 Thursday December 31St 2015

RocW | 18:08 Thu 31st Dec 2015 | Crosswords

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We are stuck with the top left hand corner. If you don't have the magazine and don't attempt the crossword - don't bother to read any further. For those who do, here goes: 1A: Northern female. I have ??U?F and i'm guessing that it could be "SNUFF" from the context of the puzzle. 1D: French article raised. If th "S" in "SNUFF" is correct, I have S?O?? Finally 16A: Thousand in our team. I have ??R?I?H and the first letter is the last letter of 1D. Sorry, I've just spotted another unrelated one. 42D: English greeting. I have M?C?S?N and no idea whatsoever. If any kind person could enlighten me, preferably with explanations, I would be grateful. Happy New Year to anyone who has had the patience to read through all this.

D/m Thurs Cryptic

Dm Cryptic

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Climbingxcat

Can't help you, can you help me? I don't understand how to get any of the four examples..... How do you get snuff from northern female, and I think chantilly is from hotel's odd features but I have no idea why? Help!
Thank you

Baldric

I'm not bothering to read any further

RocW

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Climbingxcat:

The preamble to the crossword says that there are four received items in the quotation. It's from "The Smugglers' song" and the received items are "Brandy for the parson, Baccy for the clerk, Laces for the lady and Letters for the spy." The preamble goes on to say that there are four examples of each in some of the clues, each of which consists of a cryptic indication of the UNCHECKED letters. "Hotel's odd" as you say are "H""T"and"L", which are the only unchecked letters in 31a. One of the received items is "lace" and Chantilly is a lace. (Those of us old enough will remember the Big Bopper). Similarly, 1a has two unchecked letters. Northern female = "N" and "F". We already have a "U" as the third letter and an "F" as the last letter. Add the two unchecked letters and you have ?NUFF. Snuff is a sort of "Baccy". Hope that helps and that you can finish the puzzle and enlighten me as to my missing links. Right now there is a glass of something wet and alcoholic demanding my attention!

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Climbingxcat

Thank you both Jx

RocW

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Many thanks, Cruciverbalist. Unfortunately, that has wrecked my answer to 52a: Time went quickly, reversing prosperity. I had "wantage" but "mechlin" has replaced the "n" with an "l" so I now have W?L?A?E. Any ideas?