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Day: 4 November 2007

Private Eye/Cyclops 351 – Up or down

Sun November 4, 2007 at 11:45 pm by beermagnet

There are occasions when the answer to a clue is a word or its reverse, and there is nothing in the clue to indicate which.  So you end up relying on crossing checking … Read more >>

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Guardian 24,219 (Sat 27 Oct)/Araucaria – Dusty answers

Sun November 4, 2007 at 3:19 pm by rightback

Solving time: 25 mins, two missing (26ac and 8dn). The ‘cloth hats’ referred to in the preamble were all reptiles (REP = ‘cloth’, TILES = ‘hats’), though unless KOMODO DRAGON at 19dn/29ac (my … Read more >>

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