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Spectator 2681

30d Crooked financier heartlessly absconded (6)???O??
08:59 Thu 21st Nov 20242 answers, last by tedsgran 09:08 Thu 21st Nov 2024
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Ev 1644

30a Italian city to secure ancient hotel (4) ?ARI The wordplay yields an extra "N"  Bari ? Italian city..parse? I can see the specific location to highlight (8 letters?) but unsure of the equipment... ...
13:06 Sun 26th May 202411 answers, last by quinol 17:21 Mon 27th May 2024
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Azed 2693

8d Conveyance, half to do with the kitchen, we'll collect in the vestibule (7) S??C?L?       last letter possibly i 10d Pip displaying depression when book opens (4) L??S 23d West Indian is hanging... ...
12:06 Sun 28th Jan 202415 answers, last by Lie-in King 17:29 Wed 31st Jan 2024
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Ev 1623

My "extra" letters have gone wrong somewhere... first 2 words 3,5   then goes awry...DANGBUYISCHEEEN... which are wrong and i must have missed some?
07:55 Mon 01st Jan 202413 answers, last by Lulu666 10:37 Mon 01st Jan 2024
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Ev 1622

Full grid, the hater changed....which down clues need changing?...I've changed 13d so far, but can't see the other 3....
13:10 Sun 24th Dec 20234 answers, last by ProfessorMaisie 14:20 Sun 24th Dec 2023
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Tls 1506

3a Judge not soft on film like CATS (according to Eliot) (8) ?E?L?C?E     looks like jellicoe?
08:04 Fri 15th Dec 20234 answers, last by tedsgran 08:24 Fri 15th Dec 2023
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Tls 1505

9a Handy vehicle provided by a Beckett character to put on a list I've shortly in each case returned (5,5) ?I?A?  S?A?K looks like VITAL SPARK
08:58 Fri 08th Dec 202312 answers, last by Lie-in King 14:08 Fri 08th Dec 2023
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Ev 1612

From the answer to each clue  a letter must be deleted wherever it appears before entry into the grid. Definitions rfer to full answer...wordplay to the mutilated answer. 6d Fish in France and... ...
16:46 Sun 15th Oct 202318 answers, last by Neveracrossword 05:25 Sat 21st Oct 2023
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Ev 1811

All but 1 of the clues either have an extra letter in the clue OR have an extra letter in the wordplay... 8a Lovely item covering rural birds (4) ?I?E 12a One caught cutting spiked chemical compound... ...
11:49 Mon 09th Oct 20235 answers, last by JJ109 12:12 Mon 09th Oct 2023
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Tls 1491

16d Tales about Ena and Ethel's admirer (8) ?A?T?E?A
06:29 Fri 01st Sep 20231 answer, last by Lie-in King 09:27 Fri 01st Sep 2023
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Tls 1490

26a Mayo novelist I introduced to Arundhati? (6) R?O?E?
11:42 Thu 17th Aug 202312 answers, last by FleshpotsOfDevon 16:34 Thu 17th Aug 2023
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Tls 1484

21d Gabonese academic finally gets with a French essayist (5) P?R?C Could it be Perec (french essayist) ??...
20:20 Fri 07th Jul 20233 answers, last by tedsgran 21:29 Fri 07th Jul 2023
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Tls 1483

11a Robert the poet, filled with strength by a supporter providing inspiration (5,6) F?N?Y / ?R???? 1d Father initially pampering his older sister in Aphrodite's city (6) P????S...
12:50 Thu 29th Jun 20232 answers, last by tedsgran 15:01 Thu 29th Jun 2023
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Genius 240

Number of letters not known ( 4-10)....jigsaw grid...so basically blind solving Simian really losing head in area with many trees Persian queen sans husband hosted by reportedly wise listener in the...
09:45 Tue 06th Jun 202316 answers, last by Loki2034 10:58 Tue 06th Jun 2023
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Speccie 2606

35a Calamity in field, river rising in curves (5) O?EEC ogees would fit the curves ...then Ceres would be wrong...and how would ogees parse?...
07:29 Thu 25th May 20239 answers, last by donny48 07:05 Fri 26th May 2023
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Tls 1475

22a One playing in a perversely popular kind of mode (6) I?N?*? crosses with: 19d Former sailor's novel about a swindler's daughter, left behind in an East End place of worship (7) C?*?C?L...
11:32 Thu 04th May 20235 answers, last by tedsgran 11:45 Thu 04th May 2023
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Genius 239

28a Woman's suffering setback, becoming a different woman (6) ?H?R?N looks like Sharon, but how does the clue work?
10:44 Tue 02nd May 20233 answers, last by Lie-in King 10:52 Tue 02nd May 2023
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Guardian 29039

13a Flyer around Scotland or Anglia oddly (8) O?G?N?I?
10:31 Sat 08th Apr 20233 answers, last by JJ109 10:55 Sat 08th Apr 2023
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Tls 1471

11a Cut out or remove (legally) about one line )6) A?L?T? ablate? 24d Appreciate a rise of £1000 in one of two ways (4) ?R?K...
12:27 Fri 07th Apr 20234 answers, last by Lie-in King 12:38 Fri 07th Apr 2023
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Spectator 2596

Help please with highlighting "the word".....assume it's not in the grid because of how the preamble is worded??...
15:16 Thu 16th Mar 202357 answers, last by ProfessorMaisie 12:13 Sat 18th Mar 2023

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