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Spectator 2692

PiffPoff | 13:27 Thu 27th Feb 2025 | Crosswords

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6D Sisters displaying one in new style (4) ?UN?

Must be NUNS. Wordplay?

Also, struggling with quote. Appreciate a hint.

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NS (new style) around Un (one)

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Thanks.

Welcome. Sorry I can't help with the quote.

ProfessorMaisie

First letters - Y M A W F F O Y F A L O T F B (11d for the writer).

quinol

many thanks profmaisie, didn't know the quote, but you led me to it

Tilly2

...and me. 😀

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I guessed a few of the words and googled them together and got the quote. Hadn't heard it before. Fun puzzle from these new setters.

Sruggling with a few clued lights never mind the quote

10A Learn of American through grammar school (6,4)

I have ?E?R?H ?U??

7D 'Nothing to clear up in post' is showing off (11)

I have ??t?n?a?ing

39A Close perhaps reporting depression (5) I have ???NG

36A Nothing souses drunk like a Costa? (7)

I assume that the quote starts Y?? M?G?T ?

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10A HEARTH RUGS (covers)

HEAR (Learn) + THRU (American through) + GS (grammar school)

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Nothing to clear up in post is showing off.

OSTENTATION

O (nothing) in STATION (Post) + NET (clear bakwards inside post)

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Hint for the def. of 39A is a person.

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You are correct about the start of the quote.

Tilly2

36a

Think of costa as a rib bone.

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