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Private Eye

Please help with parsing of 20 across.Clue is:Still flipping crushing virtue?Sheer recklessness! 8 letters.I have T?M?R?T?I presume the answer is temerity, but how does it parse? Many thanks.

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Private Eye

Please help with 12 down.Clue is China was the first to back capitalist newspaper.5 letters.I have D?L?? Many thanks.

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Private Eye

Please help with 5 across.Clue is:Goodness comes from a lot of money,money initially lacking.Very sorry, I have no letters.Many thanks.

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Private Eye

Please help with 13 across.Clue is: NRA ould after shifting pot 8 letters.I have ?A?L?R?? Many thanks.

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Motor Insurance

My partner and I have recently bought a Toyota Hiace minibus, imported from Japan about 5 years ago.My partner is aged 75 and has been refused insurance because of his age.Other companies have... ...

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Private Eye

PLease help with 25 across.Clue is:Democrat-type houses cross 5 letters. I have R????.Thanks a lot

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Private Eye

Pleaase help with 23 across.Clue is : Unseemly,*** Republican gets smack 4,5 letters.I have P??? ??S?E.Coul it be POOR TASTE? How does it parse? Many thanks.

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Test Of Long-Term Memory

Ages ago, in lockdown, one of my friends sent me a very funny video.In it there was a middle-aged American man playing a guitar to a small audience and singing a brilliant, funny song about... ...

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The Times

Please help with 25 across.Clue is: old gout remedy doctor keeps about emergency room.6,5 letters.I have G?O?N? E?D?R.Many thanks.

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The Times

Please help with parsing of 21 across.Clue is: Radical thought about poor weaver. 6,9 letters.Apparently the answer is Fellow traveller!!! How on earth does it work? Any help is much appreciated.

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This is a question about the clue writing competition in which readers are given a word for which they have to write a cryptic clue.This week's winning entry was "It's a top winter warmer" as a... ...

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The Times

PLease help with 12 across.Clue is 29-17=12 5 letters.I thought the answer was right.Apparently not , it's eight! Why????? Any help in explaining the answer is much appreciated

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Private Eye 794

31 "Organ sock" in green initially results in reprimand (10) ??r???h???
33 Be watchful of advice to our readers to carry on removing mag covers (4,4,4,6)
37 Who's casually swinging both ways with... ...

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Private Eye

Please help with parsing of 24 down.Clue is: What's that you said in boozer about a drink cure? 5 letters.I have R?H??.The answer must be rehab, but how does it work? Many thanks.

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