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Would some kind soul parse this little piggy to help give me closure? i think I might have the answer, and can vaguely see most of it, but not the whole damn thing... 27ac) Silas serving Opus Dei's...
11:24 Mon 09th Nov 20202 answers, last by dafyddapgwilym 11:49 Mon 09th Nov 2020
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Here we are again: stuck on last one. 2d) A pope halped to publish the works of this religious leader (5) I have P?I?R and assume it's PRIOR, but just can't parse it fully......
15:36 Tue 20th Oct 20204 answers, last by Mamyalynne 15:47 Tue 20th Oct 2020
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Last one and stuck fast: 23ac) To Phineas a wife is a boring notion (5) I have I?A?A. Grrrrrrrrrr....
08:20 Wed 14th Oct 20208 answers, last by dannyk13 08:26 Wed 14th Oct 2020
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Last one: help, please. 28ac) Young laureate’s first to see through European Union study (6) I have E?S?E? and presume it’s Essex, but I don’t know the young laureate......
12:32 Fri 21st Aug 20205 answers, last by dafyddapgwilym 12:38 Fri 21st Aug 2020
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Last one: can’t quite parse - 22d) Take in Beethoven’s 1st quartet; cap that! (5) I have B?R?T and it looks like BERET as in B & cap, but where’s the quartet?...
15:13 Fri 31st Jul 20203 answers, last by dafyddapgwilym 15:20 Fri 31st Jul 2020
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Last two, and bamboozled. 22ac) Amount of work needed to gain an honour from this famous Swede (6) I have ?D?E?G, erg is unit of work, and Edberg looks good, but what’s the honour?? And 28ac): Novel...
13:14 Sun 12th Jul 20205 answers, last by Mamyalynne 13:20 Sun 12th Jul 2020
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3D) Brussels stone expert whose diamonds Lizzie kept hold of (7) I have E?S?A?E.......
15:52 Fri 10th Jul 20204 answers, last by Mamyalynne 15:54 Fri 10th Jul 2020
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20ac) One's alter ego on good terms with a chap (5) I have S?R?N and am stumped. I wonder whether the R is wrong?...
13:52 Sat 09th May 20205 answers, last by dafyddapgwilym 13:58 Sat 09th May 2020
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Last two: 9ac) Con artist giving brief enjoyment to judge that’s popular (6). ?I?G?E and 25ac) By lake and fenland river important discoveries were made by this archaeologist (6) L?A?E? Au secours,...
09:48 Sat 11th Apr 20203 answers, last by dafyddapgwilym 09:52 Sat 11th Apr 2020
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Dunnit, but I would appreciate anyone able to, er, parse 3down: Artist responsible for many large-scale pointillist works (5) I have H?R?T. It has to be HIRST, I trust, (although he would probably...
18:06 Fri 27th Mar 20202 answers, last by dafyddapgwilym 18:10 Fri 27th Mar 2020
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Last one. 9ac) Star monster seen around a Titan (6) I have ?R?N?S, and presume it’s URANUS, as in Titan, and there’s an A, but where’s the monster? Sigh.......
07:05 Sat 21st Mar 20203 answers, last by dafyddapgwilym 07:16 Sat 21st Mar 2020
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A copper involved with film noir (11) Starts with C....
05:45 Wed 11th Mar 20208 answers, last by dafyddapgwilym 07:29 Wed 11th Mar 2020
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Could some kind person just help bycompleting the parsing of my final solution: 13d) Dance with first son, circling Bill Burns and Scott? (10) I have ?A?L?D?S?S, and presume it's BALLADISTS - BALL...
05:42 Sun 08th Mar 20204 answers, last by dafyddapgwilym 05:59 Sun 08th Mar 2020
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Last one - 9ac: A strategy intended to capture surrounding districts in former Ottoman region (4,4) I have ?E?R, ?A?T., and am bamboozled......
09:03 Sun 02nd Feb 20203 answers, last by JJ109 09:11 Sun 02nd Feb 2020
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Need help parsing this last one, please: 6d) Verse form upsets one with a rhotacism (5) I have R?B?I, so it has to be RABBI: I can't see the "verse form", though. Grrrrr......
12:13 Fri 17th Jan 20204 answers, last by Mamyalynne 12:47 Fri 17th Jan 2020
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Need to stop staring at this last one: 4d) Italian's farewell to Roman princess noted for beauty includes diamonds (5) I have A?D?O, and it seems like ADDEO as in It. goodbye + D for diamonds, but...
09:24 Sat 04th Jan 20203 answers, last by dannyk13 09:35 Sat 04th Jan 2020
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OK: anyone else doing/done NS 477? I seem somehow to have completed 3/4 of it without having even the foggiest idea of its theme. I have been staring at the obstinate bottom right-hand corner for...
16:50 Wed 25th Dec 2019
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Has become one of my favourites, and this one's a cracker. I have been stymied for several days on two last intersecting clues: 15d) Flap greeting overwhelming rule of descent (9) I have A???T?I?E and...
09:36 Mon 11th Nov 20196 answers, last by dafyddapgwilym 11:38 Mon 11th Nov 2019
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Groan. Have just realised I'm also flummoxed by 17d) Woman of Troy? It's always Gill or Dale. (8) I have ?E?R?E?E, and assume it's EVER????. Help, please!...
11:05 Sun 03rd Nov 20194 answers, last by scorpiojo 11:09 Sun 03rd Nov 2019
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Hey-ho: it's that "last one & I am bamboozled again" time. 10ac) Poet and clergyman Thomas is a standard Dickens character (7) I have ? (or maybe E, if it's DIRT for the Fat Owl of The Remove)?R?E?L....
10:08 Sun 03rd Nov 20199 answers, last by scorpiojo 10:25 Sun 03rd Nov 2019

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