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[cheshunt]

Help with last few please as I am wasting too much time

3d. Woman's fur cape T ? ? ? E ?

9a. Abandoned C ? ? ? ? ? F something OFF?

10d. Outdo ? ? E ? A ? S Saw something earlier about MEAGRE but I think MEAGER is should be the right spelling here

63d Tuna from warm waters ? L ? A ? ? ? ? Thougth BLUEFIN but that doesn't fit

78a. Japanese emperor ? I ? A ? ?

82a Type of cheese ? ? A ?

[kayakamina]

3 Tippet ?

[kayakamina]

78 Mikado

[kayakamina]

82 Edam

[tyrepill]

9a Cast off ?

[kayakamina]

9 Cast off

[kayakamina]

10 Surpass ?

[Aquagility]

10d Surpass

[JUNKMAN]

63d albacore

[cheshunt]

thanks so much to everyone. I stand corrected about meagre but think 9a a poor clue. Surely it should read abandon, present tense, not abandoned, past tense. Even then cast off has to do with boats not abandoning things.

[Catron]

cast off to reject; to release (hawks or hounds) in order to hunt or pick up a scent; to release (a boat) from its moorings; (in knitting, etc) to eliminate stitches by looping them together and removing them from the pins; to calculate the amount of printed matter that manuscript or keyed copy will make when typeset.

What do you think the past tense of cast off should be then, cheshunt? I think you will find the clue is quite correct.

[cgg]

3d TIPPET, 63d is LONGFIN I think not albacore, 82d EDAM. Think 10d probably is 'surpass'. I must have 15a wrong. I've got 'sparse' and my crossword solver has no solution for s?s?a?s if 9a is 'cast off'

[cgg]

I meant 84a is longfin not albacore!!!

[Catron]

No, 63 down is albacore:

albacore, also albicore
n a large tuna with long pectoral fins. (Chambers)