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This small piece of kit is designed to make building your Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle question more effective. It should make finding your question easier for others and, the easier it is to find, the more likely someone is to answer it!

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DT cryptic 30 Dec 08 No. 25812

agnostic2 | 12:16 Sun 11th Jan 2009 | Crosswords

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17a Succeeded breaking into Russian city oil centre (5) t-l-n. Only just got round to doing this crossword! Many thanks. Sedge47 tells me the answer is Tul s a. Could you possibly explain why, please? And is the answer to 18d (really try in a race 2,5) at heart? Many thanks.

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sedge47

s(ucceeded) inside Tula (a city in Russia) giving Tulsa (oil centre in USA).

mad_ferrit

For most of the 20th century, the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma held the nickname "Oil Capital of the World", hence the "oil centre" part of the clue.

Succeeded = S breaking into Tula = a Russian City

= Tul S a

sedge47

18d. yes - really = at heart; race =TT, try = hear (as in court)

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