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mikey4444 | 06:44 Wed 09th Oct 2013 | Crosswords
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18d...Shaft prepared, strongly built....W?L? ???
I gather its WELL something ?

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well set ?
06:45 Wed 09th Oct 2013
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I'd have said WELL MADE if it were 4,4
06:46 Wed 09th Oct 2013
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Bibblebub's 'well set' looks good
06:47 Wed 09th Oct 2013
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Thanks guys...I can only make WELL SET. Not sure where this bloody shaft comes into it though !
06:57 Wed 09th Oct 2013
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sink a shaft when making a well?
06:58 Wed 09th Oct 2013
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SHAFT
8. A long, narrow, often vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for mining ore; a tunnel.
I was taking the Well to be a shaft
06:59 Wed 09th Oct 2013
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Are shaft and well synonymous? I'm not googling 'shaft'!
07:00 Wed 09th Oct 2013
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They are not synonymous, but maybe a well is an example of a shaft- although I think it's more likely that the setter was thinking that a shaft is prepared as part of the process of making a well
07:02 Wed 09th Oct 2013
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Thanks FF..that makes sense !
07:10 Wed 09th Oct 2013

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