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[PiffPoff]

Queen cross with sweet short of clothing added rooms (6)

ANNEXE

Parse. What's short of clothing?

[JJ109]

SUITE short of suit clothing = E

[JJ109]

Thw whole parse is

Annexe (added rooms) = Anne (queen) + X (cross) + (suit)E (ie suite short of suit/clothing)

[PiffPoff]

Thanks!

[JJ109]

You're most welcome, PiffPoff!

[quinol]

for once the theme leapt out at me straight away which helped a lot, nice to be reminded too of the agenbite

[upsetter]

Island NATO for example picked up, European for years (7)

 

We know the answer but have no idea why - any ideas?

[Neveracrossword]

Upsetter, if you swap the E in the answer for a y ('years') and read it backwards, you'll have what NATO, for example, is...

[upsetter]

Many thanks Neveracrossword.

[Neveracrossword]

Glad I could help, Upsetter. I hadn't given a thought to the parsing until you asked, I'd just stuck in my answer this morning - and I was pleased you did, it's quite clever!