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Times 25418

Brain ground to a halt - stuck on 3 viz 13Ac (4) I'm baking first of pastries then having chop ?H?W (chew, chow??) 16D (3,4) The last bit nipped off END ?O?N? and 20D (7) Touching line chap's a shade...
20:49 Sat 09th Mar 20136 answers, last by chamon 11:13 Sun 10th Mar 2013
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Mephisto

All done and dusted except for 16 down (9) Out to lunch, see tips as wee matter E?I?TESE? - thought exi or epi and have gone through Chambers accordingly without success - can anyone of the usual...
21:48 Sun 03rd Mar 20138 answers, last by mra1 22:44 Sun 03rd Mar 2013
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Times Prize Crossword

Enlightenment please. I have completed but am totally foxed by the wordplay in 19ac One might get down to this business of investigating which works out as DISCO (D?S?O) - unless I am way off the beam...
22:29 Sat 02nd Mar 20134 answers, last by Sam1960 22:36 Sat 02nd Mar 2013
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Tls 964

Stuck on just the 2 9AC mountainous area revealed by Virgil (10) ?U?G?T?R?O and 27ac It went like lightning for Coleridge (4-4) ?I?E-?L?G. Any help will be much appreciated
22:01 Fri 01st Mar 20136 answers, last by pjwillcox 22:12 Fri 01st Mar 2013
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Mephisto

Ground to a halt and would greatly appreciate some assistance! 2AC (11)Plant, soft and tende4r needing light soil and sun ??CH??AN?R?; 18AC (7) Like some wine when there's some grub around? Or like...
21:47 Sun 24th Feb 20134 answers, last by mra1 21:58 Sun 24th Feb 2013
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Saturday Times Prize Crossword 25406 Saturday February 23Rd 2013

Last one 5a eventually, zip fastener is fitting (6) ?r?p?r proper?
20:59 Sat 23rd Feb 20137 answers, last by mra1 21:39 Sat 23rd Feb 2013
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Sunday Times Cryptic

Have completed but not sure of the wordplay for 3 of them viz 15AC Passing appeal to head of state (5) I have O?ing which I can only find owing to fit in (the O is definitely the last letter of the...
18:47 Sun 17th Feb 20135 answers, last by mra1 19:33 Sun 17th Feb 2013
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Times Club Monthly

Am in the doldrums. Stuck on one area so any solutions will probably help - viz 15ac (5,4) sensual existance recalled nameless piece of one's motherland ??R?? ?I?A presumably the second word is vita;...
22:29 Sat 16th Feb 20136 answers, last by Voulez-vous 22:47 Sat 16th Feb 2013
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Mephisto 2737

Help! Stuck on 3D (8) Improperly, two English guards tease Native American ?T?HI?W? and 17Ac (9 - 2 words) Criticize rating on child, not right to show everything's in flux ??NT?RHAI - I had thought...
21:09 Mon 11th Feb 20133 answers, last by kayakamina 21:27 Mon 11th Feb 2013
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Tls

Ground to a halt in the bottom lefthand corner - 23Ac (9) Thomas recalled it ????S???P; 14D (10) leading actor associated with king snake in Gibbons ?T?R???D?R; 19D (6) Whitman's spear grass found...
22:45 Fri 01st Feb 20136 answers, last by mra1 10:42 Sat 02nd Feb 2013
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Sunday Times Cryptic

Totally stumped at 19Ac (10) Row on river in French Region: ?A?A?G?F - anyone any ideas - can get no further letters
18:14 Sun 27th Jan 20133 answers, last by Lie-in King 18:19 Sun 27th Jan 2013
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Tls 959

Have ground to a halt - stuck on 2 with no further letters obtainablle viz 5Ac (7) Helps at hand to provide this name for Maremma C?S?M?R - thought Cosimir but cannot get the wordplay and 11Ac (5)...
19:59 Fri 25th Jan 20135 answers, last by themelthorpe 00:02 Sat 26th Jan 2013
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Mephisto

Have ground to a halt - think the answers I have are okay but am at a total loss with the following:- 33AC (6) former simply vile rule forgotten DA?H?Y; 31AC (8) Record damned poet's brough to light...
23:27 Sun 20th Jan 20133 answers, last by kayakamina 23:36 Sun 20th Jan 2013
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Times Jumbo Cryptic

Am stuck on 2 - any assistance will be appreciated - 48D (5) Aussie rock musician played punk tracks but only seconds of them U?U?U and 41D (3,6) Freshly perpetrated crims? First I excused the fall...
20:15 Sat 19th Jan 20133 answers, last by mra1 20:24 Sat 19th Jan 2013
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Tls

Re earlier - Have now sussed that 13 D is Holofernes (Schoolmaster in Love's Labours Lost) which leaves 15AC (Arran Islander nominally gets returned mail) as O?L?H?R?Y - does anyone have any ideas?
22:05 Fri 18th Jan 20136 answers, last by mra1 22:24 Fri 18th Jan 2013
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Mephisto

HELP! Stuck on the last 2 21D Pianist upset having to go faster for musical recording (6) M?S?UL and 22D Love this fancy woodwork? It makes lavatories fantastic ?ARSIA. I had thought Karsia but went...
20:01 Sun 13th Jan 20133 answers, last by mra1 20:11 Sun 13th Jan 2013
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Tls 957

1a Extremes dismissed for Shakespearean actor (5) S?O?T -- stout? Stott? Scott? Gtfl help. Tks.
10:37 Fri 11th Jan 20135 answers, last by mra1 21:07 Fri 11th Jan 2013
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Sundan Times Cryptic`

Have finished this (I think) - I have Agnate as the answer to 16Ac - head of allotments wanted ground with shed attached - I do not get the wordplay however except for Head (the word meaning related...
18:59 Sun 06th Jan 20135 answers, last by ChuckB 01:19 Mon 07th Jan 2013
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Re Tls

I now have 16Ac as Snow and 17D as Waste Lands - I have hit a snag - 20 Ac (10) Jameson eponyms like readers of the Evening Transcript observed by 17's author now works out as ?O?T?N?A?S - I...
23:05 Fri 04th Jan 20133 answers, last by grumpy01 23:51 Fri 04th Jan 2013
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Tls956

Have ground to a halt: 16A (4) Precipitate exponent oif 2 cultures ?N?? 17D (5,4) Desolate setting for a game of chess ??E?E, ?A?D. 25d (4) White expedition leader gets five big seconds ?O?C - I...
22:20 Fri 04th Jan 20133 answers, last by mra1 22:47 Fri 04th Jan 2013

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