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racoony | 14:33 Tue 20th Oct 2015 | Crosswords
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Please help with 12 down.Clue is:Short ingenious thing,old instrument of torture.5 letters.I have G?D?E.Someone did suggest GADGE, which I have looked up and it means an archaic word for a fellow,so not really the right answer.Any new ideas are much appreciated.
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Gadge(t) - (Browning) - an instrument of torture (Chambers)
14:35 Tue 20th Oct 2015
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Chambers gives Gadge as an instrument of torture
14:35 Tue 20th Oct 2015
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Gadge(t)
gadge - definition and meaning - Wordnik https://www.wordnik.com/words/gadge undefined: A spurious word, in the passage quoted, intended to denote some instrument of torture.
14:36 Tue 20th Oct 2015
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Thanks both, I clearly need to buy a better dictionary!
14:37 Tue 20th Oct 2015

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