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Mampara | 18:15 Mon 05th Jul 2010 | Crosswords
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15d- Nonsense in short he had entered, e.g ,preposterously (4) ?ULP

Looks like Pulp but why?
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Weirdly I've just posted the same question in Q&P !
18:17 Mon 05th Jul 2010
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I see someone has just asked the same question below.
18:17 Mon 05th Jul 2010
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I'm glad it's not just me who is stumped!
18:18 Mon 05th Jul 2010
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The reasoning behind this has driven me mad as well. I imagine (perhaps wrongly) it's something to do with the 'rare' definition of preposterously given by Chambers: "literally inverted, having or putting the last first".

I'm still none the wiser. Perhaps someone else will be.
02:16 Tue 06th Jul 2010
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"He had entered" (e.g.) is the PLUPERFECT tense, in short PLUP., preposterously (reversed) = PULP.
02:29 Tue 06th Jul 2010
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Thank you, dr b. I'm sure that explanation is correct.

I feel bound to say that imperfect rather than pluperfect is the quality I'd associate with this clue.
01:51 Wed 07th Jul 2010

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