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Guardian Prize - Having Trouble Placing In The Grid

So with today's Guardian Prize, I've got the theme and 10 of its associated partially unclued answers, and all but 16 of the others, but I don't understand the instruction about the solution to...

Ripper

Inquisitor 1599

Please can some kind person help with the following clues (sorry not many letters)Wordplay yields an extra letter not put in grid. 21 across: Number with piles tends towards smallest variation among...

saladdodger

Inquisitor 1595

each clue is a pair of clues containing wordplay only ...could be 4-7 letters for each answer Revolutionary toilet culture primarily book i put in toilet Rector and a Welsh priest interrupting carol...

Ripper

Inquisitor 1525

I'm all filled in. Got the two places HC and V, got the object TC, but is the agent the GE or should I be searching for something else? Should I shade my 'finds' in? Thanks in advance...

biggus56

Guardian Prize Crossword 27388 Saturday December 23Rd 2017

I am utterly stumped by 1d in the RH grid. The clue is 'Warning of heart-breaking time'. I've got a 6-letter answer, into which I need to insert a 7th letter (either G, V or W, by my reckoning) in the...

JazzClub

Guardian Prize 27388

Anyone got a solution for 1d in the right hand grid? I can come up with a sensible six-letter solution to the clue, and I think the extra letter to add in is V or G... but I can't make a 7-letter word...

souxie

I Prize Cryptic Crossword No 1876

4 Across, Observation on getting power on replacing core part (9) 9 across, Sailors catching sole and other sea creatures (8) 10 Across, Indication of agreement about copper's shrewdness (6) 11...

Mampara

Ev 1050 - Set By Nudd

Could anyone please give me the clue numbers of the two 'normally clued' lights describing the entry system? Thanks....

Bobbisox

Remember when....

The National Anthem was played at the end of a film and everyone stood up and sang it? When PC was a Constable...only When you got an early and late postal delivery, now it's just late... When you had...

crachet

Geography

1. What is the other Staten Island now called? (4,2,3,7) 2. Two towns or cities with identical names within 5 degrees of the same latitude? (6)

Emmeline

Saturday Telegraph GK

Nickname of US adventurer who created a homemade aircraft from 45 helium filled weather ballons and and a patio seat

glovert

Sunday Times 4257

Rugby Players, perhaps - academics too? (9) s?h?o???n i am thinking schoolmen but not in my dictionary?

mdexter123

o f t f

Yet another mystery I can not work out

letty16

Is it possible? If it is, is the solution unique

using each of the digits 1 through 9 only once, form three 3-digit numbers that are in the ratio 1: 3: 5

esmerelda3

Meeting

Is there anyone out there within easy travelling distance of Brighton who might be interested in meeting up occasionally to help others or to improve their own cryptic crossword solving skills? I...

jillie

Local Quizes

1 Which composers name translated into English as stream 2 What connects: Rory Bremner, Kate Adie,Samuel Beckett,Paula Radcliffe 3 What is the relevance of the numbers: Bush9 Brown10 Merkel12 Putin7...

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