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Cryptomaniac | 13:14 Thu 02nd Jul 2020 | Crosswords
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16 ac Congregate outside right church to see bride’s fine. (7) ?e???e?
17 d Learn about one fabric and another. (6) ??e?o?
19 ac The Scots speak indistinctly, low and soft. (4) ?o?p. Is it MOOP, which is a Scots dialect word but with the meanings nibble or browse?
Finally, the solution of UPBYE for 18 d suggested in a previous thread. Any more ideas as can find no evidence for this being large Scottish house? TIA
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16 Merchet Meet round R Ch merchet. Noun. (plural merchets) (obsolete) In Middle Ages England, a fine paid to a lord on a daughter's marriage, in recompense for the loss of a worker.
13:17 Thu 02nd Jul 2020
16 Merchet

Meet round R Ch

merchet. Noun. (plural merchets) (obsolete) In Middle Ages England, a fine paid to a lord on a daughter's marriage, in recompense for the loss of a worker.
19 Moop (or Moup) can also mean to mumble,metter etc.

https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/moup_v1_n
19 moo(low)+p(soft)
17 Crepon

Con (learn) round Rep (fabric)
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Thanks all, especially to Mamyalynne. No need to ask where Cullen comes from!

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