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frameshift | 10:41 Tue 12th Jan 2010 | Crosswords
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2d A wretch disturbs what drinks here? (8) P - E - - - U - E Pleasure, pressure?
8d Scottish flower seen to waste beauty on the air (8) - L - E - E - L Only thing I can think of is bluebell. Thanks for help.
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Bluebell looks OK. 'Blue the lot on the horses' = wasted and beauty=bell (e)
10:44 Tue 12th Jan 2010
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2d Alehouse ....A Louse + Eh (what!)

8d Bluebell.....Blue (waste!) Bell(e) -beauty.
10:44 Tue 12th Jan 2010
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Wouldn't that be blew the lot on horses, and why Scottish? I wondered about BLAEBELL as well.
10:46 Tue 12th Jan 2010
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"on the air" means that the answer "sounds like" i.e. blew belle = bluebell
10:48 Tue 12th Jan 2010
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Thanks, looks like I had 1a wrong. I had epidemic, it is pandemic, then alehouse fits. Thanks a lot everyone.
10:48 Tue 12th Jan 2010
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No, the verb is 'to blue' meaning to waste or squander. Nothing to do with 'to blow/blew'.
11:20 Tue 12th Jan 2010
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Fancy that. I always thought that it was blow, present, or blew, past, in the sense of blowing it away. Learn something every day. Thanks.
13:21 Tue 12th Jan 2010

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