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hankir | 20:09 Fri 02nd Nov 2012 | Crosswords
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Both of these clues give an answer plus an extra letter.

1. Animal representations reject solid oils and prepared suet (7)

????UES , extra letter may be F

2. Competitively priced bordello (3)

CE?, extra letter may be E

thanks in advance.
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1) STATUES = 'fats' reversed + anagram of 'suet', and remov ethe F
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Thanks, bibblebub.

For some reason, I was ignoring the word "solid" and was stuck on arts for oils.
if only i had experience of bordellos then i might be able to come up with an answer to the 2nd
KE(E)N
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Thanks, HowardKennitby.

I found meaning of keen. But ken as bordello is missing from dictionaries I checked.

From Collins: Keen defined as (mainly British) extremely low so as to be competitive ⇒ "keen prices"

To bibblebub: Now you know that ken is it, without ever visiting a bordello.
aye, now i ken it's ken
From OED

ken, n.2 Also 6 kene.
[Vagabonds' slang.]
A house; esp. a house where thieves, beggars, or disreputable characters meet or lodge. Freq. with qualifying words, as bousing-, dancing-, smuggling-, stalling-, touting-ken (q.v.). Phr. to burn the ken (see quot. 1725).

1567 Harman Caveat (1869) 83 A ken, a house.
Ibid. 85 Tower ye [= look you], yander is the kene.
1622 Fletcher Beggars' Bush v. i, Surprising a boore's ken for grunting cheates.
1641 Brome Joviall Crew ii. Wks. 1873 III. 388 Bowse a health to the Gentry Cofe of the Ken.
1725 New Cant. Dict., Burnt the Ken, when Strollers leave the Ale_house, without paying their Quarters.
1800 Sporting Mag. XVI. 26 Called at a ken in the way home.
1851 Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 351 Up she goes to any likely ken,_and commences begging.
1860 Dixon Pers. Hist. Ld. Bacon v. _15 These_skulk about the kens of Newgate Street.

Also exists in Chambers
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Howard Kennitby.

Thanks.

I don't have OED or Chambers. I use OneLook online.

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