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Belfast Telegraph cryptic

16a Devise an exercise session (7) - - - K - U - Is 8a 'Pecan'? Nut about to be eaten by writer (5) - E - A -...

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A female BBC journalist heard about a very old Jewish man who had been going to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem to pray, twice a day, every day, for a long, long time. To check it out, she went to the...

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Is Libya the new Nigeria?

I've just received an e-mail from a chap in Libya who apparently has more money than sense. He wants to send it to me and I can have 40% if I'll keep the rest for him. Could this be from one of...

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Radio Times 45

24a Spades needed for green snow when melted (5) - L - S - Is 15a windsor? Where horses race round castle (7) - i - D - O -...

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Radio Times 45

9d Conventionalised novel operatic style (13) - T - R - - - Y - i - A -

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Why were there no galley slaves in the RN?

I think in Hugo's Les Misérables there is a mention of galley slaves in the French navy. Were the powers-that-be in the Admiralty too humane to use them in the RN?

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How would you pronounce this French name?

Bouguereau. It can't be 'bu@@er you' can it?...

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Do people in the rest of Europe celebrate Halloween with fireworks

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Four and twenty vergers...

What happened to my answer to the question about Inverness?

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An Irish ghost story.

Subject:* An Irish Ghost Story *This story happened a while ago in Dublin , and even though it sounds like an Alfred Hitchcock tale, it's true.** John Bradford, a Dublin University student, was on the...

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Saif al-Islam. If he was sentenced at The Hague war crimes court, and served his time,

could he then claim refugee status somewhere in Europe? It's clear from the way that some of his family members were treated that it wouldn't be safe for him to return to Libya....

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