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Saturday, November 8, 2008

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Odette leaps to an early lead, since nobody else has noticed the new one yet.

O, your answers for 10,23,43,52, 63 across, and 7,33,55 down are wrong. In one case you were very close.

Odette: 13 answers.

Latest:


Clues:
ACROSS:
1. Dull, lacking colour.(4)
6. Dismal.(4)
10. Pull this when telling tall tales.(3,5,3)
13. Ubiquitous trouser press.(5)
16. For geeks: .(4)
18. --- Wallach, Ugly from "The Good, the bad and the Ugly".(3)
19. Andrew Lloyd's partner.(3)
20. We say "Less" when we should say "-----",(5)
21. An easy one, to begin.(5)
23. Me? no.(3)
24. Puts back to default settings.(6)
31. Employ.(3)
32. Possibly one time too many.(3,5)
35. Like this clue.(6)
37. Agreement from an individual.(6)
39. Cruel.(8)
42. For geeks: invert the following logic.(3)
43. Large, flightless bird. Not you, lynny.(3)
44. Required for endurance sports, and for compiling crosswords.(7)
47. Ancient hill. Lots of these in New Mills.(3)
48. Three of these made a terrible racket then went back to opera.(3)
49. Language of Iran.(5)
51. Trick.(3)
52. Become 30 across.(3)
54. Female dancer.(3)
58. Blues legend, aka McKinley Morganfield.(5,6)
63. Can be flat, toe-clip or SPuD.(6)
64. In a short while.(4)

DOWN:
1. Paint in a slapdash fashion.(4)
3. Grounds.(8)
4. Irish indy rock band.(3)
7. Eye discharge.(5)
8. The seat of consciousness.(4)
9. Medieval weapon.(4)
11. Not from heaven.(7)
12. "Tarka curry, it's like chicken but it's -----" - my favourite joke.(5)
14. Zombies do this repeatedly.(6,2,3)
15. Variety of Tree.(3)
17. They can be wild, chosen or bit-of-a.(4)
22. "A dark and hungry God ------", Stephen Donaldson novel.(6)
23. Young people.(6)
25. When we'll be there. Abbreviation.(3)
26. Test.(11)
28. Slang word for power or influence.(5)
29. Can be King, dirty or shithouse.(3)
33. Pole.(5)
34. Make sterile.(6)
38. Ingest.(3)
40. Female pronoun.(3)
44. Ah, the sound of these on a frosty winters morning. I miss it.(7)
45. Borrow, colloquial.(4)
46. Ate.(5)
49. Thermal containers.(6)
50. To compost.(3)
53. Flammable moss.(4)
55. Norse god.(4)
57. Deserve, as in respect.(4)
59. Can be lucky, sheep or salsa.(3)
60. Stash of money, colloquial.(3)

3 comments:

  1. How does this work? Do I just tell you what I think is the answer? 13 Across, Corby

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  2. ACROSS -

    10 - THE OTHER TOE / LEG
    51 - CON

    DOWN

    9 - MACE
    57 - EARN

    My brain died ... sorry and that was fun. BTW thanks the pic comes up better now and I can read the numbers with my own eyes ... tee hee

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  3. across

    1 drab
    21 start
    24 resets

    down

    1 daub
    9 mace
    38 eat
    37 accede
    25 eta
    26 examination
    12 otter

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