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Another day-another day of bafflement . Please explain these to me. Warning forever featured in book. Ans amber (=warning) but don't get the rest. Change over some false hair . Ans switch. No idea....
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1d Gap in boxer's defence offering small possibility of success. Ans must be "fighting chance" which is a small possibility of success -but how is it a small gap in a boxer's defence, please?...
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Sixty crosswords in and came the closest I have to finishing one unaided. Sadly had never heard of frowst or neologism so that scuppered that . Please parse these for me . Mounted policeman perhaps...
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Please explain where the alia comes in this answer. Bury Matilda, perhaps, right away , among other things . Ans Inter (bury) alia. I know that alia is within Matilda but that would leave mtd and...
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Please parse these. Old fashioned advice you had making cheap whiskey.Ans redeye =cheap whiskey but how does first part of clue work? Rejecting all techniques , one lets down a house plant . Ans...
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1a Articles I'd inserted in place of hard news. Ans must be tidings which is id replacing h in things. But why does things =news please?...
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Please explain these to me. Gutless junkie with pointed instrument. Ans Jews harp. I get the sharp bit but how does gutless junkie =jew? A short revolution finally ending in state today. Ans Saturday...
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Please explain these answers Boarding with Presbyterian, perhaps, on the wagon. Ans Wainscot (=boarding) . I assume w is with but can't see the rest Is this the complete version ? Ans island. Totally...
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Please explain these to me -I can't even get started on the cryptics. Work in cafe , finally given plate for meat. Ans Escalope (= piece of meat) Old dandy finishes off burlesque verse. Ans Macaroni...
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Please explain these to me . Anita's transposed and updated Christiana . Ans Oslo . I get that Oslo was once called Christiana but can't find an Anita called olso . An evil woman imprisoned and shamed...
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Would someone please explain this https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/peter-schrank-sunday-times-cartoon-april-18-2021-0gbvqd0dl I can see it's Biden but don't know who the person on the rhs is or the...
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Given the admittedly small issue with blood clots from the AZ and Janssen vector vaccines and the newness of MRNA vaccines , that leaves Novavax if it gets approved. That is a protein vaccine like...
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6d Express a view about English sleuth coming in . Ans must be "opine". Apart from the e for english, can't see where the opin comes from . Thanks...
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Totally baffled as to why the answers are what they are. Trap swan, reportedly a strong swimmer. Ans cobweb . I get the cob =swan but web=strong swimmer? Almost too fantastic a source of French wines...
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This is a system where you can get draught beer at home. The machines are made by Philips but in the UK mainly sold by Beerhawk . However they have been out of stock for sometime presumably in part...
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8d Making up like Bob and Penny were. Ans must be coinage as one shilling and 1d were -but where how does making up =coinage ?...
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I would be grateful for the parsing of the following . Begin to lose one's temper . Ans Lead off . I thought it must be that when a metal is tempered, it is covered in lead and in the course of time...
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Very dispiriting when not only can't you solve them but you can't follow the answers! Please parse:- For that reason part of the army's in reserve . Ans Thereby. I assume re is part of the army but...
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Celebration of Victorian age, for reprise in just over ten years? Ans is "diamond jubilee" which fits the bit before the comma but how does the bit after the comma lead to that, please? Have stared at...
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Doing things for an author. Ans was given on here as "Agent nouns" but no explanation was given. An explanation was given on another site as "Wikipedia explains, “In linguistics, an agent noun is a...

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