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This was a reet boogar. Elucidation for last two mindbenders, please: 9ac (A source of healing ointment for Capes's knight) is presumably Gilead (-I-E-D) - but who is Capes? and 19ac (On the contrary,...
10:17 Sun 19th Oct 20142 answers, last by NC4BBQ 20:43 Sun 19th Oct 2014
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Stuck on last one: 20d) I leave scale for Platonist. I have *E*S*S. I have things to do. Please help! :)
10:33 Sun 28th Sep 20144 answers, last by scorpiojo 10:36 Sun 28th Sep 2014
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27ac: Two works of Disraeli introduce first class return to old port (7). I have S-D-N-A, and I am guessing SIDONIA, but with no idea as to correct parsing......
08:04 Tue 16th Sep 20146 answers, last by dannyk13 08:27 Tue 16th Sep 2014
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Stuck on last one: 18ac - He depicted the West in illustrations and writing (no doubt impeccably typed). (9). I have R.M.N.T.N. ??...
21:20 Sun 07th Sep 20143 answers, last by dafyddapgwilym 21:22 Sun 07th Sep 2014
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5d: A madeleine with a past, predating Proust (7). I have V?L?E?N. Stumped..........
19:24 Thu 03rd Jul 201423 answers, last by NC4BBQ 13:11 Fri 04th Jul 2014
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1down = Slogan caused Elia's card-player to weep? (6,3): it has to be BATTLE CRY (B?T?L?,C?Y), but I have no idea why? Anyone enlighten me, please, then maybe I can go and get a life...
11:01 Sat 28th Jun 20142 answers, last by dafyddapgwilym 12:00 Sat 28th Jun 2014
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Last one: 19ac - Time for Williams' song (5) ?I?HT I presume RIGHT, but who is the Williams here?...
12:56 Sat 14th Jun 20147 answers, last by NC4BBQ 13:56 Sun 15th Jun 2014
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Last two: 19d = Arse gives rise to waffle and viscous mixture (6) I have ???B?G which I suppose suggests GASBAG but I don't quite see it; and 21ac = Bureaucrats: "terrible leader, Miliband ultimately,...
10:46 Sat 14th Jun 20145 answers, last by emeritus 10:50 Sat 14th Jun 2014
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10ac) Speed of light? Uncommonly smartish! (9) C-R------
14:40 Sat 24th May 20148 answers, last by dafyddapgwilym 15:19 Sat 24th May 2014
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Guardian Prize

Groan: I stupidly left the last one last night and here is it again this morning and I'm still stumped: 24d) Child has first to grow (4) S-O-. Help!...
07:08 Sun 18th May 201410 answers, last by dafyddapgwilym 08:50 Sun 18th May 2014
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Observer Everyman

13d: Miserly person embarrassed current collector. Last one, and it must be CHEAPSKATE (?H?A?S?A?E) but I can't parse the "embarrassed current collector" bit......
14:42 Sun 11th May 201411 answers, last by bibblebub 12:25 Sun 18th May 2014
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7ac: Cable's dithering about his lead - or he's reluctant to take the plunge? (.A.....R)...
09:02 Fri 02nd May 201410 answers, last by clonbrusk 09:49 Sat 10th May 2014
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Last one - 12ac: It revealed chevalier's feminine side (6). I have E?N?S? It can only be ERNEST, but I can't see why!...
12:04 Fri 18th Apr 20144 answers, last by dafyddapgwilym 13:49 Fri 18th Apr 2014
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20ac: Those other aspects of distinctive habitual character (5). I have E...S, and am stumped....
17:32 Fri 11th Apr 20143 answers, last by dafyddapgwilym 17:40 Fri 11th Apr 2014
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18d: F-ed up, as Larkin's state (3,5). I have S-I, -A-K-. ??
15:44 Fri 21st Mar 20144 answers, last by dafyddapgwilym 16:01 Fri 21st Mar 2014
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Last one and it's doing my head in - 25ac: Symbols awarded to different grades of production for cinema (4,5) I have F-L-,S-A-S. It would seem to be FILM STARS, but I have no idea why. Help, please?...
11:30 Fri 21st Mar 20142 answers, last by dafyddapgwilym 11:49 Fri 21st Mar 2014
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New Statesman

Last one: 29ac) Dandy and Beano lacking no respectful title (4). It's ?E?U, and my brain hurts......
11:09 Mon 10th Feb 20144 answers, last by dafyddapgwilym 11:14 Mon 10th Feb 2014
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New Statesman

8ac: Neighbours broadcast outside - or here? (12) E?I?S??R???H...
08:45 Mon 10th Feb 20144 answers, last by bibblebub 09:40 Mon 10th Feb 2014
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12ac: A man's man, we hear (and his dog). I have HE?R - I think HERR (Thomas Mann = German; maybe sounds like "hair", of the dog?) but I'm not at all clear about the parsing, and it's my last clue....
10:04 Sat 01st Feb 20143 answers, last by walgraver 18:38 Sun 02nd Feb 2014
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Last one: I assume that 1d (Desire for romantic novelist) must be HOPE - but I'd just like someone to say why?
16:48 Mon 02nd Dec 20133 answers, last by dafyddapgwilym 16:59 Mon 02nd Dec 2013

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