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rainblue | 01:08 Mon 01st Sep 2008 | Crosswords
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18D Can anyone explain GERMANIC if indeed it is same?

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No promises (the Guardian compilers don't like me!), but if you can post the clue, I'll try... :-)
germanic relates to people or language
group of indo european speaking peoples originating in norhern europe identified by their use their germanic language
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18 D Idle, perhaps, about piece inferior to good number of languages (8) G-r-a-i-
Ah!

G-er-man-ic - 'Eric' (Idle) (about) 'man' (piece), (inferior = under) G(ood)
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lie-in king
thank you
man-piece (a bit iffy don't you think)

Cheers all the same
...As in chess, etc :-)
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lie-in king

Of course -chess. With it not being in the Beijing Olympics it has totally been eliminated from the brain box.

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Happy to help :-)

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