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  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,347
    edited February 2020
    Championship football team based in in South East London that are not Charlton Athletic.

    5 letters,

    C  _  N _  S
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    Salad said:
    one who numbs, nice!

    will repeat this as it's a good one:
    Bust down reason? (9)
    Brainwash?
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    correct @happyvalley
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,827
    Please explain that one - I dont get it.
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    MrOneLung said:
    Please explain that one - I dont get it.
    Bra in wash
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    Stripey Twats (7,6)
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,956
    edited February 2020
    cherryorchard said:
    Number of people in theatre (12)
    Two girls, one on each knee (7)

    Hint: think medically for each one.
    Second one is patella

    Bloody gwr wifi
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,332
    Exiled_Addick said:
    Stripey Twats (7,6)
    Cryptic Palace
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,779
    happyvalley said:
    Has anyone any favourites they'd like to share? I came across a good one on Saturday. Liberality  of Scottish capital metioned,(8 letters).  I'll post the answer later if no one gets it, but I'm sure they will.
    I’ve seen this as:

    S (8)
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,779
    HIJKLMNO (5)
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  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,779
    sgeg (9,4)
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,779
    Listen, a sexual deviation (5,2,4,4)
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,827
    AddicksAddict said:
    HIJKLMNO (5)
    Water 
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,827
    AddicksAddict said:
    sgeg (9,4)
    Scrambled eggs 
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,779
    AddicksAddict said:
    Listen, a sexual deviation (5,2,4,4)
    Prick up one's ears
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    Salad said:
    Wordplay in 15 clues lacks something crucial in one form or another
    @LawrieAbrahams - I only just twigged - crucial as in pertaining to a cross!
    I wonder if CEE refers to Central & Eastern Europe - climbers - states growing after communism - tentative!

  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,779
    Salad said:
    Salad said:
    Wordplay in 15 clues lacks something crucial in one form or another
    @LawrieAbrahams - I only just twigged - crucial as in pertaining to a cross!
    I wonder if CEE refers to Central & Eastern Europe - climbers - states growing after communism - tentative!

    Ah yes, I hadnt spotted that.
    I think that is too obscure. Chambers Dictionary is the crossword setter's bible and it doesnt have CEE as an abbreviation, only cee as in the letter C.

  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    edited March 2020
    had another go yesterday, got several, cheated for most, some I get the full meaning but still can't parse:
    i) Fashion icon briefly hugged by top fop - PEACOCK
    ii) Bread covered by another lid, not quite screwed onto hash dish - LANCASHIRE HOTPOT
    iii) Intimate element going in earlier - case dismissed - ONE ON ONE - O (NEON) ONE - I suspect going in earlier is "S-OONE-R" and "SR" means case somehow?
    any guidance appreciated :-)
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,779
    I) Fashion icon = Coco (Chanel), briefly means you take off the last letter. Peak = top.
    ii) bread = cash, that's in an anagram of another li (lid, not quite = li). Pot = hash.
    III) CASE just means the first and last letters of sooner. 
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    these clues are even harder than I expected, thanks @LawrieAbrahams
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  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    a couple more from The Times ... get the main definitions but not the cryptic ones
    i) Wake in Fenland? Here refused place in hospital - WARD -  
    ii) Hidden from public scrutiny with summer over? - UNDER THE COUNTER 

    Can this one really be a reference to the Super Furry Animals?
    Woody perhaps the one she loves?  ... Woody Herman (musician), Hermann Loves Pauline (SFA song)
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,779
    This is from Saturday.
    i) The Wake from Fenland was Hereward the Wake.
    ii) counter = summer (one who sums)
    iii) No - the one she loves = her man
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    ffs!
    Thanks @LawrieAbrahams :smile:
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,779
    LawrieAbrahams said:
    AddicksAddict said:
    Listen, a sexual deviation (5,2,4,4)
    Prick up one's ears
    That would work, too, but the answer at the time was PRICK UP YOUR EARS, as in the title of the film.
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,779
    AddicksAddict said:
    LawrieAbrahams said:
    AddicksAddict said:
    Listen, a sexual deviation (5,2,4,4)
    Prick up one's ears
    That would work, too, but the answer at the time was PRICK UP YOUR EARS, as in the title of the film.
    Ears being an anagram, as intended by John Lahr who wrote the autobiography of Joe Orton, later made into a film.
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,423
    Today’s telegraph for anyone interested.
    i suggest no spoilers and I’ll post answers as long as I get paper tomorrow.

  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    1, across saddleback
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,423
    happyvalley said:
    1, across saddleback
    Bang goes the no spoiler request.
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    happyvalley said:
    1, across saddleback
    Sorry just read the bit about no spoilers

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