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28A - last remaining clue. Shaw's investment (5) - GBS or some other Shaw ?. I have S?E?E. I should know this but it escapes me. Help.
21:13 Thu 19th May 20113 answers, last by walgraver 21:47 Thu 19th May 2011
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tls 878

OK everybody, I think I've found it. TW wrote something called Triple Play (which actually has four short plays !), so I' going for Triple as the answer to 6D.
15:08 Wed 18th May 20112 answers, last by treetops1 15:13 Wed 18th May 2011
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6D - Tennessee Williams's Play (6). I have T?I?L?. If 10A - India and 12A - quillpen are correct then trifle fits in the sense of playing with, trifling with, but I don't see the TW connection. Why...
15:00 Wed 18th May 20113 answers, last by Quizmonkey 12:09 Thu 19th May 2011
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TLS 878

3 left. 1D - period Lawrence found soft (9) - which Lawrence, T.E. or D.H. ? I have S?P?A???. 14A - haunted and harried, he wrote post haste (10) - I have ??L?A?T?N? 19A - Blake perceived she was...
16:20 Fri 13th May 20114 answers, last by walgraver 21:11 Fri 13th May 2011
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5D - Simon's way (8) - I have F?A?D?R?. Flanders fits - Flanders and Swann - Swann's Way 14D - To start with, is a giant in charge here ? (that's academic) (8). I have I?A?O?I? Any ideas ?...
16:06 Thu 05th May 20113 answers, last by walgraver 16:07 Fri 06th May 2011
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TLS 875

I don't believe it ! No questions about TLS 875 - are we all getting cleverer or is it just easy this time ?
16:09 Mon 18th Apr 20112 answers, last by cupid04 17:27 Mon 18th Apr 2011
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TLS 874

16D - " ____ in beauty" the rolls of black plastic arise (after G. M. Hopkins) (9). I have B?R?A?O?S so it looks like 'barbarous' ?
16:28 Sat 09th Apr 20113 answers, last by walgraver 16:40 Sun 10th Apr 2011
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Friends - a few questions. 19A - Like members of Conan Doyle league; I have RED?A???? - I assume redhaired. 27A - Tyre change required by him in 677 BC (4-6). I have ???R?A?D?N 7D - where old major...
16:27 Fri 08th Apr 20116 answers, last by tommy-h 19:42 Fri 08th Apr 2011
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TLS 873

20D - First pm novelist (7); I have W?L?E?E 23A - Provenance of Aida (5); I have E?B?A - Euboa ?, why? 26A - Poet with features of clerical cut etc. (5). I suppose this is Eliot but I can't work it...
15:34 Fri 01st Apr 20117 answers, last by poetaster 14:38 Sat 02nd Apr 2011
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TLS 872

Last Question - 12A - Have a glass of port, won't you ? it's rather ___ ? (6). I have D?L?S? so it looks like 'delish' Any thoughts ?
16:01 Fri 25th Mar 20112 answers, last by walgraver 16:32 Fri 25th Mar 2011
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6D - He should be able to hold a candle to most crime writers (8) - I have only ??A????? 8D - Rector's daughter who became curate's wife as the bell tolled, we hear (5,4) - I have Y as the last letter...
17:29 Thu 24th Mar 20117 answers, last by trotwood 19:54 Thu 31st Mar 2011
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TLS Crossword 871

14A - One like Lawrence at his watertrough (12) (D.H.L. 'The Snake' ?) I have ???I?P?I?I?T
13:54 Fri 18th Mar 20116 answers, last by poetaster 18:11 Fri 18th Mar 2011
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tls crossword 870

Thanks for all the helpful answers. One more - I assume 26A - Obscure as Frank's mother (4) is 'dark' but I'd be glad to know why - who is, was, Frank ?...
19:15 Sun 13th Mar 20114 answers, last by chelle7272 16:25 Mon 14th Mar 2011
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20A - " --- are dull partly because everyone pretends to understand them" - I assume this is the 19C Walter Raleigh and not the Elizabethan. Ideas ?
16:17 Sat 12th Mar 20111 answer, last by TheWinner 16:44 Sat 12th Mar 2011
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tls crossword 870

I'm stuck on several but need these most - 11D - Irish miner lamented by Lewis (5,7) 14D - out-and-out snake offered in cold comfort (10) - Cold Comfort Farm ? I assume 7D is Marryat but don't know...
17:42 Fri 11th Mar 20113 answers, last by NC4BBQ 12:19 Sun 13th Mar 2011
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tls Crossword 869

22A - Finish, say, sort of tongue. I have U?R???. I guess it's either Ugraic or Ugrian - Finnish language. Which means I need to know 16D - Well-known slapstick writer ? Also 17A - What's Hecuba to...
17:37 Sat 05th Mar 20113 answers, last by walgraver 16:35 Sun 06th Mar 2011
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tls crossword 869

5D - possibly islander, present at the passing of James Cook in Dickens story. I have C?P?A?N (captain ?) ???D?R??. Any ideas ?
21:35 Fri 04th Mar 20112 answers, last by treetops1 21:39 Fri 04th Mar 2011
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TLS Crossword 868

24 A - Lovelorn, doggerel-writing poet of the French state (7). Thanks for contributions so far but I still don't get it. Is it de Maine or Demaine and why ? Help !
18:12 Mon 28th Feb 20116 answers, last by slaney 12:55 Tue 01st Mar 2011
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TLS Crossword 868

Last clue - 24A (7) - Lovelorn, doggerel-writing poet of the French state. I have D?M?I?E. Ideas ?
16:54 Sat 26th Feb 20112 answers, last by walgraver 17:52 Sat 26th Feb 2011
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TLS Crossword 868

10D - Slander holiday of 1 Across (6,6). I have ??L?G???E???. 1 Across is Wyndham Lewis.
16:47 Fri 25th Feb 20111 answer, last by bellabee 17:07 Fri 25th Feb 2011

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