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Saturday Times Cryptic 24831 Saturday April 23rd 2011

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diogenes44 | 10:43 Sat 23rd Apr 2011 | Crosswords
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23. Way down South, author’s lost it after chapter’s written (5) c?u?e. Could be chute, but the wordplay evades me.
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Shute (Nevil) - author with C (hapter) for S (outh)
Could be from Nevil Shute - S(outh) lost replace with C(hapter)
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Many thx Kayakamina. Clever clue which was would have been easier on the beach.
A terrible clue, in my opinion. Accurate, yes and clever, yes, but the wordplay is so contrived as to make it needlessly obscure. And the surface sense means what exactly?

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