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[dominie]

Loved answer to 13a!

[fiction-factory]

13a Lost pet bird repeatedly earns you 50p, say (7) ????G??

Polygon.

[aelmpvw]

groan, need a headache tablet now but the paracetamol

[fiction-factory]

****Nerd alert***

...although, strictly speaking, a 50p piece is not really a polygon as a polygon is a plane figure that is bounded by a finite chain of straight line segments closing in a loop to form a closed chain or circuit.
Not only is a 50p piece a 3d shape, but also the 2d face has 7 curved sides making it an equilateral curve heptagon which is not a polygon.

[Tilly2]

It's not a haiku, either. :-)

[MargoTester]

Oh my gawd - all that and before 8.00 am!! My head hurts.

[fiction-factory]

Is that the dance the All Blacks rugby team do, Tilly2?

[dannyk13]

Is there a whiff of pedantism here?

[Tilly2]

It could well be, ff, providing it has only 17 moves.

[fiction-factory]

I don't know,
What you mean
Tell me Tilly, do.

Was there another clue involving Haiku?

[fiction-factory]

Sorry, counted my syllables wrong

[Tilly2]

:-) That is funny!

[fiction-factory]

Yes, I messed that up.
Maybe I need to get hold of yesterday's Mail to work out what the heck haiku's got to do with it

[dannyk13]

FF Haiku is not part of the clue.

[Tilly2]

I was just referring to another post where I was being 'nerdy' by pointing out that a little poem was not, in fact, a Haiku.
Don't worry about it, ff. It's just my sense of humour.

[aelmpvw]

/// a little poem was not, in fact, a Haiku.///
it is if it's English :-)

[Tilly2]

You've lost me there, ael.

[fiction-factory]

Thanks Tiily2- I'll try to find your thread.
Pedanticism has its place

[dannyk13]

Thought it was the parrot that was lost.

[fiction-factory]

And the plot.

[dannyk13]

//pedantism has its place//
I don't think it has in relation to crossword clues.