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mra1 | 14:19 Sat 24th Jan 2015 | Crosswords
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Unsure of my last 3 - 31 across Brother accepts a certain smear involving finances ???E?A?Y only word I can get is monetary but don't see the wordplay: 27 down Type of current to get rid of in charge dispensing with amps? A???S?I? If monetary is right then the only word I can get is Acoustic - again why? and 33 down practise to play a blinder (ironically) ?E? ?O?N? E?E ?N I thought get ones eye in but again I am not sure of the parsing. Can any one help please?
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31 Monetary
'Get ones eye in' seems fine- the irony is that a blind person can't get his eye in

Keep ones eye in ??
one tar(a certain smear) in my(exclamation) ?
I assumed your suggested answer would fit teh pattern but it doesn't- you are showing 3,5,3,2
AC current
Oust get rid of
IC in charge
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Thank you very much indeed everyone! I will just go with acoustic then!
AC (type of current) OUST( get rid) IC (in charge)
27d,ac(type of curent) + oust(get rid of ) +c (charge)
Sorry ic(in charge)
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Incidentally thanks very much to everyone for explaining the work play
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Sorry factorfiction - that was a typo should have been 3,4,3 2
15 A. Painful emotion with region losing river and land now broken up (7)
??n?a?a
Pangaea
15a pang a(r)ea
Pangaea
noun - (plate tectonics) a hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when it split into Laurasia and Gondwanaland
Thanks,everyone.

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