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1. helper of course (5) 2. Indian fifty (5) 3. garnet in New York? (6) 4. pop mama with an English part (9) 5. does she have a ticklish throat (6) 6. the first naïve tiger to be recommended (11) 7. a...

colin76

Answers Begin With Or Have Within The Letters Wi

15, not quite with it (10) 20, the earl ate this (8) 21, type of broom or tree shot (6) 27, confection (6) 29, ground level alarm (8) Lindens SWI Closing date 2nd November 2019...

pomona

Enter Your Question Title Heretls 1297

17d One whose suit was successful despite his leaden approach (8) ?A?S?N?? bassanio?? 16d Dryden and Shadwell, for instance, both give the sack (9) L????????...

Buenchico

For Fans Of Musicals . . .

. . . or of dance . . . or of just pure brilliance in an outstanding performance . . . here's 11-year-old Elliott Hanna thoroughly earning his standing ovation in Billy Elliot:...

woofgang

Looks Like Sainsburys Are Not Selling Fireworks This Year

No link as they seem to want to keep it low profile but it looks like Sainsburys have taken the decision not to sell fireworks this year. If you or someone you know are affected by the constant...

KARL

Grim Reading

The UN's figures are sobering: https://www.unhcr.org/figures-at-a-glance.html However, is there now hope that once the UK enters its prosperous post-Brexit future that it will crawl up from the bottom...

-SharonA-

Buying A Knife

I have just returned home after spending a good part of the morning trying to buy a kitchen vegetable knife!! And no I did not manage to buy one. Many shops have stopped selling them, unless you buy a...

Rosie29

The Name Of The Rose

Anybody watching this ? I thought the first episode was a bit Sherlock Holmesy but enjoyable and beautiful to look at. But I shall never remember who's who.

ToraToraTora

Looks Like Jezza Is Worried About His Crooked "block" Votes...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50051178...

Bobbisox1

Would You Be Happy Paying £25 For A Routine Doctors Appointment?

Personally it wouldn’t bother me doing this if it would cut down on the time wasters who allegedly cost the NHS £216 million a year with missed appointments who just don’t bother turning up, the...

Verbix

Times Prize Saturday 13 Oct

Stuck on last few: 9 ac: Push on taps to obtain drink in pub? (4, 5) 11 ac: Chap needing transport periodically when on breaks (6) 3 d: Spellbound lover in forest led stray with yarns (8) 24 d:...

anotheoldgit

Should The Bbc And Itv Use Their Other Channels When Airing Sports Events?

Is it fair to those who do not have any interest in sport for both the ITV and the BBC to broadcast these events on their main channels at peak viewing time?...

creamegg

Gk Star

88a non removable computer data storage devices 4,5 hard d???s hard disks, hard discs? 67d bemused c??e?e?? - last letter is probably an 's' from 88a 9d vague ?n?e?i?i?e - indecisive or indefinite?...

ToraToraTora

Let's Do The Usual Dance Around The Obvious......

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50014205 "In these early stages, we are keeping an open mind about the motivation of this terrible incident and the circumstances as we know them. " - right oh!...

spathiphyllum

Plastic Bags

I think in supermarkets there should be a bag recycle scheme where everyone can bring their collection of plastic bags and put them in a metal cage thing near the baskets at the front of the shop....

redglenys

Radio Times 42

3d Quiz show's feats uniformly carried out [6,9] 18a Poldark on tv makes aunt randier [5,6] 24a passed down to another labourer [6,4]...

Jordyboy9

Members Of Long-Standing

Chinajan you and some others who have been on answerbank for all these years don’t in my opinion contribute much to the running of the site, I am not trying to get at you just stating a fact,that if...

nailit

Feeling Your Childrens Pain

Contrary to popular opinion, I don't post my entire life on here. (far from it) We all have issues and sometimes it helps to share (some of) those issues and receive advice/support from others that...

Bobbisox1

A Classical Interlude,

What’s your favourite piece of classical music? I’ve posted mine in Jordys thread, here it is again https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1iX4HPVW-wI...

dance2trance

What Books Have You Turfed After You Started To Read Them?

I started reading the following prior to their sending me into a coma of boredom so they were taken to the charity shop. They were Middlemarch, Catch 22, Mary Beard's history of Rome, Pickwick Papers,...

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