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Analgesic Lurking In The Vales.

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satprof | 09:03 Sat 19th Feb 2022 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Alphapuzzle cryptic clue for today. (Vales has a capital letter in the original.)
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Salve
09:04 Sat 19th Feb 2022
aspirin??
Salve
that's better... ^^
I'm sure Salve is correct, but it's definitely not a good clue! Salve = analgesic?



according to wiki, yes salve can be an analgesic
Thanks,Emmie. I prefer Chambers - and I know that the Alphapuzzle often stretches things! My reaction today was really because there have been several odd ones recently.
so they have...
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I think that salve is close enough to even the Chambers definition of analgesic to be admissable. These days we tend to think of analgesics as being solely drugs. Chambers, however, states "any drug or other agent that relieves pain".

Certainly Alphapuzzles take liberties but this seems OK to me.

Salve can be located with E = 21.
Thanks, Satprof -but we'll have to agree to disagree! 'Relieving pain' and 'soothing'(or even 'remedy', another definition of 'salve') don't seem synonymous to me.
PS Alphapuzzle's liberties are... entertaining at times!
Salve .. 3,8,19,23,21 .. Q is 13 and X is 7. Keyword today is (18,12,3,21,8,3,21) down, only 1 solution after salve+ given letters.
Aleve?

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