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Mephisto I've Got Alalagmoi For 11 Across, But Can't Find It In Any Dictionary.

magistra | 16:42 Mon 29th Dec 2014 | Crosswords

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Clue is:Cries in the manner of prisoner meeting me affectedly, so A LA + LAG + MOI, and the answer means cries (Greek?, Hebrew?)

Leon 33

Daily Telegraph General Knowledge (Gk) Christmas G K Saturday December 20Th 2014

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bibblebub

it says here http://www.crosswordsolver.org/forum/468327/mephisto-2835-11-across that it is the plural of alalagmos which is in CHambers

bibblebub

... but not in the 13th Edition

BlackadderV

Most Greek nouns ending in os form their plurals with oi.

BlackadderV

It's in the 2003 edition, not sure what number that is.

TheFrogman

It (alalagmoi) appeared in Chambers up to and including the 12th edition, but in the 12th edition it was one of those wonderful 'star words'; whilst the removal of the star words from the 13th (2013) edition is surely a good thing, the complete omission of the words themselves from this edition is not! I believe that most if not all of the barred crosswords will start to use the 13th edition from 1st Jan 2015 and where a 'missing' word is used setters will be instructed to include text along the lines of 'The Chambers Dictionary 13th edition is the primary reference; however, it does not list the entry at ??, which appears in earlier editions'.

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