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MdM69 | 02:54 Thu 29th Sep 2005 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Much appreciation in advance for several cryptics that have stumped me:

  1. retailer makes more disgusting sounds (6)
  2. chopped veal is in overnight bag (6)
  3. pair in second-rate contest (5)
  4. "use the guillotine creatively", he bade (6)
  5. risk a wet outcome to be towed by boat (5-3)
  6. biscuit chef, that is (6)
  7. bow and scrape up wok, perhaps two (6)
  8. brought back art of using French in commerce (5)
  9. crackers with spots (5)
  10. sheepish climber chases love (5)
  11. make progress despite talon being covered in egg mixture (3,5)
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1. Grocer...which sounds like 'grosser'...ie more disgusting.
2. Valise...is inside an anagram of veal.
4. Behead...anagram of 'he bade'.
5. Water-ski...anagram of risk a wet.
6. Cookie...cook = chef and ie is the abbreviation for 'that is'.
7. Kowtow = bow and scrape is an anagram of wok and two.
9. Dotty.
8. Trade...art backwards and 'de' = 'of' in French.

3  Brace

8  Trade

10  Ovine

11 Get Along

3. Brace...B = second rate and race = contest.
Ah! A slight case of synchrography there, Grandad!

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