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Sunday Express Skeleton Sunday April 8Th 2018
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Help please!!! 9d "Hole in reddish pink material" 9 letters ????????l
28a "plant consisting of two leaves" 9 letters f???h????
11a "foreign lady Ian described" 6 letters ?I??a? Hope someone can help with these
28a "plant consisting of two leaves" 9 letters f???h????
11a "foreign lady Ian described" 6 letters ?I??a? Hope someone can help with these
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I was using incorrectlyusing the word 'described' twice initially- once (incorrectly ) for BY IAN (the lady described by Ian/ the lady Ian described) and once in the sense of tracing or traversing the outline of something (as in Maths when we were told to describe a circle).
I can now see the Ian = the letter I by the letters AN but it seems very contrived. But I'm just someone who dips in rather than a full time cruciverbalist so maybe I haven't seen enough of these setter's devices.
And of course as it was the Faithless setter there was always the risk they'd put the wrong clue again!
I can now see the Ian = the letter I by the letters AN but it seems very contrived. But I'm just someone who dips in rather than a full time cruciverbalist so maybe I haven't seen enough of these setter's devices.
And of course as it was the Faithless setter there was always the risk they'd put the wrong clue again!
re sunday express skeleton - this grid has always had very tenuous & dodgy clues to answers, often not making sense. 28 ac plant consisting of two leaves is definitely f-i-h-e-s, and only 2 words fit - faithless and frightens, and neither makes sense. I can see why JJ109 and DannyK13 think it actually refers to 27ac Dill, but that is wrong - 27ac is dolt - Fool (dolt) a trainee (L for learner) has a point (dot) about