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Spectator 2554 By Lavatch

All completed, but would like to check my answers to two clues: 12D Mythologisers stop interrupting experts on law (10) L?G?N?IST? . Proposed answer LEGANLISTS (parsed as LEGALISTS with N...
18:45 Mon 16th May 20224 answers, last by Missel 21:08 Mon 16th May 2022
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Speccie 2541 Madness By Pabulum

"Unclued lights suggest nine words (all in Chambers) starting with the same four-letter word..." I don't have Chambers. Please can someone give me the words from Chambers beginning with the four...
15:46 Sat 16th Apr 20227 answers, last by ProfessorMaisie 12:08 Sun 17th Apr 2022
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Spectator 2542 : Wider Ii

I have solved the grid, but only by using two very obscure answers for intersecting unclued lights 12D and 25A. My answers for these are 12D: RAMBINI (a design of slingshot; replace the "R" with "C"...
10:20 Sun 13th Feb 20222 answers, last by Missel 14:06 Sun 13th Feb 2022
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Spectator 2540

Answers preferably with parsing please for: 14A Nothing fresh about first social reformer (7) ??E?I?T 21A View rascal across floor (6, two words) ??O?ON (if the answer is LOOKON, parsing please) 40A...
10:35 Sat 29th Jan 20225 answers, last by Missel 10:58 Sat 29th Jan 2022
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Spectator #2511 Changing Places

HINTS please for any of the following: 29A Island garden with a cuckoo (7) ??AN?D? 39A Keen to win fluctuating set (7) ??R???T 18D Wrong about onerous inauguration (10, hyphened) ???A?I?D?? 26D Some...
17:56 Wed 23rd Jun 202119 answers, last by Missel 08:13 Thu 24th Jun 2021
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Spectator 2499 Entitled Trio

HINTS please for the following: 8A Formerly heartless German painter (4 ??ST . Is this "LAST", and, if so, who is the German painter? 8D Fiend in east again taking latitude (5) ??LI? 37D You once, I...
11:35 Sun 28th Mar 20218 answers, last by Missel 12:31 Sun 28th Mar 2021
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Spectator 2493

Completed, but help please in parsing 24D Sign of a cold hollow nature shown in judge (6) ?NEE?E Solution SNEEZE is a sign of a cold but I can't see hollow nature shown in judge...
10:08 Mon 15th Feb 202116 answers, last by aelmpvw 10:41 Mon 15th Feb 2021
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Spectator Christmas Party 2020

Help please firstly with checking some solutions and then HINTS please for some other clues not yet solved... i) 57D(4) clued in preamble as "an item placed in front of the STABLE". I have WHIT, but...
10:20 Tue 29th Dec 20208 answers, last by Missel 11:35 Tue 29th Dec 2020
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Spectator 2480

Thanks to previous questions, only two to go. HINTS please for: 33D Island's small business covering central India (5) I?I?E; and 34A Unlimited cut, a bit of a shock for Edmund (5) ?E?RE...
19:02 Sat 24th Oct 20207 answers, last by Missel 19:50 Sat 24th Oct 2020
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Spectator 2475

Almost finished, but help please with the solutions/parsing for three remaining: 8D Afternoon visiting ill wives and concubines (5). ?ARA? - is the answer HARAM (if so, help with parsing please)? 10D...
08:55 Sun 20th Sep 20205 answers, last by Missel 09:05 Sun 20th Sep 2020
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Spectator 2463

Can anyone point me to an online source please where I can look for a language fitting unclued 41A? I have letters (before reordering) of ?EMS?ON
08:52 Sun 28th Jun 20209 answers, last by Missel 10:15 Sun 28th Jun 2020
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Spectator 2460

Help please: 8D "See eighth of gamblers end in abject poverty (9)" feels like it might be 'Penniless'. Hints please if I am wrong. If it is right, can you help with parsing? Hints please for 28D...
16:08 Sun 07th Jun 20204 answers, last by Missel 22:28 Sun 07th Jun 2020
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Spectator 2458

Hints please for: 7/40A Chubby girl's crime? (6) B????? And 37A Could be Florentine silver lace (5) ?R?I? Thank you....
01:12 Mon 25th May 20204 answers, last by Missel 14:20 Wed 27th May 2020
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Spectator 2456

I have come to this late. I have solved all the lights (thanks Sousa), but please might I have hints please for: 16A Titivate to run for Scotland in park (5) ? R I N ? 21D Frank's superlative after...
09:49 Thu 21st May 20204 answers, last by Missel 19:41 Thu 21st May 2020
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Spectator 2454

Very nearly completed, but need some final help: 6A "Sailor - another in sea is absorbed" (7). I have an answer "BEMUSED", but not sure on parsing. 7D "Sand's dubious novel covers" (7). I have...
10:27 Sat 25th Apr 20204 answers, last by Missel 11:31 Sat 25th Apr 2020
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Spectator 2453

Nearly there. Struggling with 1A "Keep bearing left for Great Lake"(5) (have only S????) and 3D "Short cloak called upon briefly" (6) (have ??E?T?) Hints pls....
16:37 Sat 18th Apr 20205 answers, last by Missel 17:24 Sat 18th Apr 2020
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Spectator 2453

Why is 15A "In the country, must run at first over mountain" (5), not "R" + "URAL"? Correct answer seems to have to be ?U?G? Hint pls on 12A "Delving into information, understands about saving" (7,...
14:55 Sat 18th Apr 20204 answers, last by Missel 15:13 Sat 18th Apr 2020

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