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hankir | 23:00 Fri 26th Jul 2019 | Crosswords
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How does parsing for 8d work?

8,. Condemn 40, not 7 (5)
DECRY

40 is Espy and 7 is Unsectarian

I have tried forty and seven spelled out.

How do you get from here to there?

Thanks.
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Possiblky it's de[S]cry when the Mediaeval Latin numeral for 7 is removed.
(Haven't got to the crossword yet. Still reading Rod Liddle.)
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Thanks vetuste_ennemi.

It sounds logical.
I did not know S could be 7 in Latin.
My knowledge of Latin is close to zero.
Not strictly Latin as in ancient Roman, Hankdir: I,V,X,L, C, D and M.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals

Relevant section is "Use in the Middle Ages and Renaissance".
I've got a list of these numerals pencilled in the last page of my Chambers dictionary.

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