Charlton Cryptic Clues

Redskin

A brief distraction from these troubling times, all currently Charlton related: They're quite hard.

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1) Sweet reduced by 33.3%

2) 50% of chocolate product missing: This means nothing in France

3) Chap - a communist- to die

4) Heavy and punishing catarrh? Yes

5) Sailor's boy receives letter from France

LawrieAbrahams

2 Katrien

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LawrieAbrahams said:

2 Katrien

Surely that would be 50% brain missing ?

Redskin

LawrieAbrahams said:

2 Katrien

Correct!

Kit-Kat/ nothing in French; rien

Redskin

Covered End said:

LawrieAbrahams said:

2 Katrien

Surely that would be 50% brain missing ?

Now,now...

You should have a go at 3)

iaitch

1. Roland and Katrien, i.e two turds.

Redskin

iaitch said:

1. Roland and Katrien, i.e two turds.

Ha! Doubly cryptic, so that's yours.

Roly poly pudding

LawrieAbrahams

3 Cove red End

Redskin

LawrieAbrahams said:

3 Cove red End

Skill

LawrieAbrahams

Is 4 Richard Murray?

Redskin

LawrieAbrahams said:

Is 4 Richard Murray?

Hat - trick!

Heavy= rich/ punishing= hard
catarrh= murr/ yes= ay

LawrieAbrahams

And the last one is Johnny Jackson.

Redskin

LawrieAbrahams said:

And the last one is Johnny Jackson.

Well done, Lawrie. If I ever do another one, I'll pm you with it...

Letter from France - French letter - Johnny / sailors - Jacks / boy ' son

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Ok, I'll admit it. If you didn't explain them I'd never get them and even when you do explain them I'm still struggling.

catarrh = murr ?

Off_it

It's like reading a (bad) episode of 3-2-1

At least that had Dusty Bin to keep you entertained

Redskin

A couple of them were pretty hard, especially if you're unfamiliar with cryptic crosswords, but they do make sense.
Murr is simply a form of catarrh as I discovered in the OED when I was struggling to work that part of the clue. Ahem...

A Merry Christmas to you, Steve, and the family.

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Redskin said:

A couple of them were pretty hard, especially if you're unfamiliar with cryptic crosswords, but they do make sense.
Murr is simply a form of catarrh as I discovered in the OED when I was struggling to work that part of the clue. Ahem...

A Merry Christmas to you, Steve, and the family.

I couldn't find murr in the New Little Oxford Dictionary, nor Google.

Merry Xmas Paul, to you & your family.

LawrieAbrahams

Murr was pretty obscure but ay for yes is standard in cryptic crossword clues.
I thought the clues were good.

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LawrieAbrahams said:

Murr was pretty obscure but ay for yes is standard in cryptic crossword clues.
I thought the clues were good.

Olly Catarrh of X Factor. Although, Olly Phlegm would be better.