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aeronut | 19:31 Sat 10th Jan 2009 | Crosswords
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13d Choose outsiders from emigre band for skirmishing
(10) ?i???e?ing
19ac English make stacks for bereaved Irish family's compensation (5) e????
20d Green alga doesn't live with fine oxygen absorbed (7)
??o?o?t

Also- for 24ac On every occasion that chick's mother has smaller clothing (7) I have whenear as alternate spelling for wheneer- am I correct?
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13dn Pick e(migr)e ring
20d Is (ok o) nt
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Thanks, greyfox.
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Please explain the wordplay for isokont, which is usually defined as having flagella of equal length.
Think 24 ac is: W (hen) eer i.e. weer being smaller
Chambers gives 'Isokont' as another noun form for 'isokontae' : 'the green algae...'
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Good point re. 24ac, but on the other hand wear fits with the "clothing" part of the definition.
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Yes, isokontae refers to alga and I accept Chambers alternate spelling, but how about the "doesn't live with fine oxygen"?
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Also found this in the OED:
1586 [see EARIK]. 1596 SPENSER State Irel. Wks. (1862) 504/2 In the case of Murder..the malefactor shall give unto them [the friends], or to the child, or wife of him that is slain a recompence, which they call an Eriach. 1612 DAVIES Why Ireland, etc. (1747) 111 The killing of an Irishman was..punished..by a fine or pecuniary punishment which is called an Ericke. Ibid. (1787) 126 Your Sheriff..shall be welcome to me, but let me know his erick aforehand. a1849 J. C. MANGAN Poems (1859) 389 All the dead Heaped on the field..Were scarce an eric for his head. 1885 R. BAGWELL Irel. under Tudors I. 11 This blood-fine, called an eric, was an utter abomination to the English of the sixteenth century.
You've been making it more complicated than necessary aeronut. The definition is 'green alga': the wordplay being:

Doesn't live = isn't , absorbed by fine = ok oxygen = o.

Is (ok o) n't
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So I see,
Nothing to it, really.

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