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jan1956

MM Links Game November [Week 4]

?Good morning? to you all! This is Queen Jan the Foremost of the Shrubbery and this will be my final week reigning over MM Link Land. Next week will see a new King or Queen crowned as Lord or Lady of...

esmerelda3

araucaria

Coleridge's narrator made ten dollars ( 3,6) O _ D/_ A _ L _ R I feel this must be an anagram but still can't get it Thanks for any help

cesdlv

Guardian (Araucaria) 24,243, last one

C Trickster holding greater part of culture grower (9) I have C?E?O?T?T and I can see CHEAT for trickster, but nothing more; and no lectures on getting a decent Chambers, please. I'm going to drop...

endanger

Spectator 1842

1a Singular secularism engulfing one webern work (11, two words) 35d Composer chucks opus in bottom of pan (4) 25d Variable with pliant amens? Not me! (6, hyphened) 20a The French spill the beans or...

LottieAnne

the times June 1965

I can't even start this one! 1ac It could give a fair amount of pleasure - or pain (10) 3rd letter = i 9th = c 14ac Buttons swallows a bit of food with hesitation (9) 8th letter = g 24ac Is the peach...

AB Editor

Competition Winners!

Hi, Thanks to everyone who entered our "Can Crocodiles Cry" Competition! The answers are as follows - Did Winston Churchill ever own a bulldog? -No, he owned a poodle. Did Rolf Harris ever swim for...

Freda7

Christmas connection

Can anyone help with these please? 1. Made by turning wood, but end is missing. 2. Girl is found by the French border. Number of letters are not given in either case. Any help, hints, clues, answers...

cfd

Local Crossword (YEP)

Film veteran in other words a-d-e - probably really simple but I just can't see it. Thanks in advance

Meadow Lane

cryptic Cath Herald

19d "One may make a mortar, eg, a kind of bomb to drop on barrier" (5) S?A?E

BUBBALOOBUBS

mail 19/11

i'm stuck on two - 16a importance of parts of kensington and chelsea ?e?s?n - 23d gender not raised by church functionary ?e?s?n

Misstoddler

Re "Report this answer"

Why is it that in any thread, some of the answers have "report this answer" alongside them and others don't?

jane mark 2

Male and female signs.

Can you please tell me if the male sign (with arrow) and female sign (with cross) have a specific name?

smouse

Christmas quiz

Which long running radio programme was born in a Christmas special in 1923? Where are they eg A welsh town that shoulders knitwear - cardigan 1. A railway terminus that would interest an artillery...

tobyw

times jumbo 727

Stuck on last few. Any help appreciated. 34d. Nice incomers may become so locally co-ordinated(11) f-e---i-i-d 43ac. Squirms endlessly during exercise, if you please(7) p-n-h-e 25d. Extent of...

jwbr

Times 4251

Last one. 9a Device for directing traffic around fallen tree trunk in city. _O_A_N_. Locarno?

blueyag

Catchphrase, expression or well known phrase.

1. Quack Cluck Quack Cluck 2. Dea . I thought it may be unfinished deal. 3. T5Pre10pV20pI ( Any Philadelphian lawyers about!!!! ) 4. SOS. ( I do not know whether the full stop is relevant as no other...

LottieAnne

The Times October 1966

23ac An incarnation (6) 2nd letter poss. v 27ac What a row it makes in London and anywhere (9) - - o - l - - - - (not certain about the l ) 28ac What the potter did for haute couture? (7,5) - e - - -...

teddysbears

st marys church quiz

36) who was the only British Prime minister to die in office in 10Downing Street. and 14) in the television series The Good Life what was the name of the turkey. please for any help thank you.

chrispybacon

Local Quiz for charity(Overgate Hospice)

I have completed 80% of a difficult quiz (for charity - which any prize (doubled) will go to.? The answers are towns/cities in the UK. 5. Travel here using bingo skates (11) ?......house 21. Lack of...

rosles

times 23757

help please with copper's entering lavatory with huge pools of water around l????????e a dish wife put out containing meat primarily (5,3) a???? ??? very good guess ?????e

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