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mohill | 10:27 Sat 15th Aug 2009 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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Stuck on one corner and hope a few solutions will set me going.
1.Predictable? In part, yes? (8) T???????
2. Chess ending overwhelmed friend (9,4)
??O?????D MATE
3. Courtier and a girl he aroused (7) R??????
4. Film director affected one acting (7) ??M????
Many thanks.
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2 smothered mate
3 Raleigh
4 Campion
3 Raleigh
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Thanks to both of you. As a NZer I should have seen Campion!
I now have 1. which is typecast. two others still elude me despite having so many letters.
Girl, pretty small type P?A?L I guess PEARL, but why?
Crack on sale by river vexes some upper-class young ladies (6,7) S?O?N? R?N?E?S

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PEARL - I think it's a small typeface/font

SLOANE RANGERS
anagram (indicated by crack) of 'on sale' + r (river) + angers (vexes)
= UK term for middle-class female equivalent of Hooray Henries (sort of)

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