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[meabby]

7d Money - by chance half goes missing (4) r?N?
21 d intend expanse of water to rise after clipping mountain laurel (6) ?A?M?A
48 ac wise man an entertaining type - what you expect (6) g?S?A?

thanks

[Mamyalynne]

48 Gaspar

[Lie-in King]

Still me!

7d Rand(omly)
21d Kalmia - aim (intend) + lak(e), rising
48a Gaspar (alt sp of Caspar, one of the 3 wise men) - gas = 'entertaining type' + par (you'd expect)

[Mamyalynne]

7 Rand

[meabby]

thanks - finished at last!

[Mamyalynne]

Still you?
why wouldnt you be?

[Lie-in King]

Hi mamyalynne - Lol! I answered meabby earlier & may have given the impression that I was going to "Beetle off"!! :-))

I am now - gotta be up at sparrow's f@rt...

Night...

[Mamyalynne]

Bye now take care

[ap855]

7d. Rand? "Random" is "by chance" but why is "om" "half"?

21d. Kalmia. From "aim" (intend) and "lak(e)".

48ac. Gaspar. (One of the three wise men, the Magi, - see 33d). "Gas" for "entertaining" and "par" for "what you expect" .