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Spectator Xmas - Last 2!!!

endanger33 | 09:14 Wed 31st Dec 2008 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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37d examples of "made" (maid) d?n?r - is it Diner or Doner???

102d akin to moan (moa +n) ?r?wn - is it crown or grown?

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irish field

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a-nigma

102d grown as sounds like groan/moan

endanger33

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is it not crown - crow (bird) + n

Quizmonster

The preamble doesn't say it has to sound like moan. On the basis that a moa was a bird...giving bird + n... for moan, I felt that crow(n) was OK for 102 down, just as ree(n) was for 84 down, both being birds followed by n, as you suggest, Endanger.
To be honest, I think the setter completely overdid things in his search for complexity in this crossword. For example, I wonder what percentage of the population of Britain pronounce the name, Maude, to rhyme with the word moored. Only those with a somewhat drawled variety of Oxford/BBC/RP mode of speech, I suspect. Certainly I didn't see it until someone pointed it out here on AnswerBank.
But what the hey! It's just a crossword.

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endanger33

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thsnks Quizmonster - did you have a view on diner doner?

Quizmonster

I opted for diner, but - as you suggest - it could just as easily be doner if that is given the donner pronunciation. I suppose we shall all have to hope our pronunciation matches the setter's! (Coming originally from the north-east of Scotland, though a long-term resident in England, I just know mine won't. But what the heck...I won the Speccie a few weeks back anyway!)

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