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stevenj | 19:46 Sat 22nd Jul 2017 | Crosswords
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Hello everybody. I am back
I have managed all the clues except one and, as so often, it is a short word ( four letters)
Sailor beginning to scale a mountain in Thessaly. I have ?s?a but I can't work out the missing two letters. Can someone help me please?
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Ossa, mountain. O (rdinary ) S (eaman) and S(cale) A.
Ossa

OS (Ordinary seaman) + S(cale) a
Sailor. Ordinary seaman
Beginning to scale s
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Ossa
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Wow! I don't think I would have worked that one out. I assume that Ossa is a mountain in Thessaly.
Thank you to all three of you.
steven
Sorry, I should have said that it, the mountain, was in Thessaly. I was so keen to show that I could parse the answer!
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That is one up on me. I couldn't parse it and I didn't know the geography. Quite humbling!
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