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iminoz | 05:21 Sun 08th Sep 2019 | Crosswords
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8d. Circular (rarely) one's taken around Edinburgh's capital, getting one just beyond there (5)
I have OER?Y
I thought it might be a contraction of OVERBY, (E in ORBY, circular), but I can't find it in Chambers.
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John Jamieson O'ERBY, adv. Over ; denoting motion from one place to another at no great distance from it, S. Quo' she unto the sheal step ye o'erby. Ross's Helenore, p. 76.
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John Jamieson
O'ERBY, adv. Over ; denoting motion from one place to another at no great distance from it, S. Quo' she unto the sheal step ye o'erby. Ross's Helenore, p. 76.
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Thanks for the references, JJ. That must be it. The "one"s seem superfluous to the Wordplay, which is unusual for Azed. He's normally so precise.

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