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Wednesday Daily Express Crossword

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paross | 15:01 Wed 21st Aug 2013 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Hi All :-)

Stuck on last one. 11A gold fakes distributed around desert. F*R*A*E
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forsake
15:02 Wed 21st Aug 2013
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forsake
15:02 Wed 21st Aug 2013
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forsake (anag of OR = gold, and FAKES)
15:02 Wed 21st Aug 2013
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gold = OR (French or heraldry), distributed fakes = FSAKE, so
desert (verb) = F-OR-SAKE.
15:02 Wed 21st Aug 2013
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Forsake
15:03 Wed 21st Aug 2013
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Thank you, but I don't get it! I must be thick
15:04 Wed 21st Aug 2013
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to forsake someone is to desert them
15:05 Wed 21st Aug 2013
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Read it in pieces: (i) gold, (ii) fakes distributed around, (iii) desert.
15:05 Wed 21st Aug 2013
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To desert someone can be to forsake them. Or is French for gold anagram of or and fakes =forsake
15:07 Wed 21st Aug 2013
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Many thanks to you all, I had been reading it as desert (with sand)!!
15:08 Wed 21st Aug 2013
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It's not an anagram of OR and FAKES - it's OR inside an anagram of FAKES.
16:58 Wed 21st Aug 2013

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