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Mar 2nd 2009, 2:26 pm

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Re: Terribly important... crossword help

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Originally Posted by TiddlyPom

C said there were 5 spaces in the crossword box ...

But why would the fifth letter be somewhere other than at the end

It wouldn't have been the fifth if it was somewhere else, would it????????????

Mar 2nd 2009, 3:47 pm

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Re: Terribly important... crossword help

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Originally Posted by ABCDiamond

I'll give you the only letter I had before I twigged:

---e

Mar 2nd 2009, 7:07 pm

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Re: Terribly important... crossword help

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I'll give you the only letter I had before I twigged:

---e

boce. Italian version of bowls.

Mar 2nd 2009, 7:36 pm

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Re: Terribly important... crossword help

How about the answer to this cryptic clue, which stumped me for a few minutes...yet some people get it instantly !

17. ABCDEFG...PQRSTUVWXYZ (5)

Mar 2nd 2009, 7:56 pm

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Re: Terribly important... crossword help

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How about the answer to this cryptic clue, which stumped me for a few minutes...yet some people get it instantly !

17. ABCDEFG...PQRSTUVWXYZ (5)

H to O

Mar 2nd 2009, 7:58 pm

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Re: Terribly important... crossword help

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boce. Italian version of bowls.

I was thinking of the french version of something like that, but couldn't find the right word for it.

Mar 2nd 2009, 8:34 pm

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Re: Terribly important... crossword help

Not that its important, but wasnt she called/spelt Sindy?

Em x

Mar 2nd 2009, 9:06 pm

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Re: Terribly important... crossword help

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H to O

Yes...water !

Mar 2nd 2009, 9:07 pm

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Re: Terribly important... crossword help

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Originally Posted by ABCDiamond

I was thinking of the french version of something like that, but couldn't find the right word for it.

...pétanque or boule?

Mar 2nd 2009, 9:11 pm

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Re: Terribly important... crossword help

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boce. Italian version of bowls.

I still haven't twigged this one...
...isn't boce spelled as bocce

Mar 2nd 2009, 9:37 pm

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...pétanque or boule?

Yes that what I was thinking, whilst drinking my H to O

Mar 2nd 2009, 10:37 pm

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Re: Terribly important... crossword help

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Originally Posted by Burbage

I had a good one recently from a torygraph cryptic crossword that took me ages:

It's played on the lawn in summer (4)

As kids we always played with the washing line or rope on the lawn (or back green as we called it in Scotland)..is it either of these two words?

Mar 3rd 2009, 12:55 am

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Re: Terribly important... crossword help

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I still haven't twigged this one...
...isn't boce spelled as bocce

Damn! You're right. And here I thought I was so clever.

Mar 3rd 2009, 1:49 am

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Re: Terribly important... crossword help

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Damn! You're right. And here I thought I was so clever.

...never mind...suppose I will have to keep calling in to see Burbage's reveal !

Mar 3rd 2009, 11:21 am

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Re: Terribly important... crossword help

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...never mind...suppose I will have to keep calling in to see Burbage's reveal !

All right, I'll put you out of you misery.

It's played on the lawn in summer (4 not 5)

hose

Last edited by Burbage; Mar 3rd 2009 at 11:27 am.

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