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Chaseman | 10:27 Tue 17th May 2022 | Crosswords
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25a Nonsense about hire car one's kept driving ????E?T?A?
Looks as though it could be TORRENTIAL which would fit with Driving [rain] and contains RENT i.e. HIRE but I cannot work out where the nonsense or the car come in.

10a Fool about in small part of desert D?N?E. Dunce or Dense? Can't quite see either.
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ROT backwards, then RENTAL round I
c = about in dune (sand dune)
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Thanks both. If we have Torrential settled then I have two more to get, both of which intersect with that.
21d Genuine playwright but not British ?C?T. All I can think of is Scot but then a Scot is British!
22d Short slope leading to cliff ?C?R makes me think it is Scar (Scarp minus the last letter) but why is a Scar a Cliff?
//Scars are exposed cliffs of limestone//
21 echt
(br) echt
^ playwright (Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956).
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Thanks all. You live and learn. I didn't know a scar was a cliff. And I had never heard of echt. But I know now!

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