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most annoying modern phrase or saying

Which modern phrases annoy you the most. I personally can't stand it when people say "simples" like that meerkat advert a few years back or "end of" when discussing something... I...

grahamr888

Northern Scot - Thank you in advance

6d) Place where linguistic rules are learnt? (7,6) G?A?M?R, ?C?O?L 7d) Pass due to ease with which LP is played (6) E?A?S?...

foxspur

Stuck with three. 11ac Bars in Greece and Turkey blocking sailor with first one put to the back (8) I have ?EMA?T?A The M could be wrong if greece and Turkey is the LEVANT. 22dn Regiment chaps go all...

Harduk

Stuck on final clue

13 ac Surrealist later happier with English artist (3-10) p_e _a_h_e_i_e Feel I should know it but stuck Thanks...

Lavender77

Guardian help

"Soft rock group are not starting out on tour too early" - is the answer premature and if so, why please?

contendo

Saturday Times The Listener 4195 Sum by Hotspur Saturday June 23rd 2012

Well that wasn't too bad. Now for the bottom half.

TAFFWILLIAMS

Saturday Telegraph GK

36 across 5 LETTERS Any one of a series of slabs forming a naturally-occurring limestone pavement I have C _ I _ T Is it CLIFT? Many thanks in advance, Taff Williams...

Twit-Who

EV 1023 Phoenix byRasputin

This puzzle was just the right degree of difficulty for me - some have been far too easy of late. Last few clues took a while before all fell into place. However there were four wrong word lengths -...

Zabadak

Listener 4194, Two Little Ducks by Ben Trovato

Now that really WAS easy, though I had to work fast as I'm off out to watch England/Sweden in the company of some Spurs. Once the first of the unclued answers drops, the rest follow without too much...

lashley

azed2089

last few-help please-see instructions below 4d car climbing round eastern ghat? 4 CREE? 26d materiel,right?it vanquishes everything they say 4 A?MOR-double A or m? 22d head of volcano enveloped in...

billoloco

JUST ONE MORE!

Can anyone help please : Everyone gets my cable about old sitcom(4,6) ????,?C?E?L Thanks billoloco...

cashier

Times 25192

9ac As water may be there, horse dropped in sea (7) m???a?? Thanks in advance...

fillipowelly

a joker, clown or buffoon, two words (5-6)

last one _e_r_ a_d___

TriviaQueen

DR £500

86d be proud of yourself (4,4) - ?a?k ?a?l, last one so any help gratefully received

maggiebee

To all you lovers of language

An ode of English plurals We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes, But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, Yet the plural of moose should...

SwerBan

Daily Telegraph Toughie 789 Thursday June 14th 2012

14d - What makes bane inane in hollow place? (5) I think it's "Basin" but I have no idea why! Thanks in advance!...

Mamyalynne

Night night song from Mamya♥

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Obscurantist

Times Jumbo Cryptic 983 25ac

Last one 25ac - During fall turned completely white (6) -A-L-D...

souxie

i Cryptic Crossword No 419

19 Down, Town producing report on soldiers (6) 20 Down, Army,from what we hear,bannedort sleeved garment (6) 23 Across, Wine tasting incomplete (4) 25 Across,Writer's early material rejected (5) E?I?T...

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