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Simpler than we (or at least, I) thought:



I was going down the CIA route too...

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:thumbup:

I never saw that. :o

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Thanks guys, I had 'restraint' but couldn't make it fit with the others. Charites is obscure but non the less valid.


The 'Carla' answer, well what can I say like my friend I was too focused on CIA

Hope you guys enjoy these little teasers

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Yeah, keep 'em coming. Long time since I've done a cryptic crossword. My father introduced me to them some 40 years ago, used to do the Telegraph regularly...

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Not doing very well today. Not quite sure where my brain is.

Try these
1) Game that's possible with youth I'm bleeping. (4,3,7)

2)Jet-hued novel? (4,3,7)

3) Prohibition's no go - crooked tsars arrest men in abundance. (13)

4) Shell fresh peas, sharing alternately with student. (8)

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2) novel works in two ways here. First, to indicate an anagram, second as a synonym for the third word.

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Can't work out why the first part is Hunt The

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4) Shell fresh peas, sharing alternately with student. (8)

This one is very devious. I admit to cheating and looking it up via google, I wouldn't have got it in a month of sundays.

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Got the anagram of peas and the "L" but was struggling where to get the other letters from, and was totally thrown by "shell"--was fixated on a shellfish. Yeah, really devious.

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Cheers guys. I saw the thimble bit but I've never heard of the game.

Should have got Jude...

Never would have got Shrapnel.

A bad day all round

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Only one left today. I have a few idea but can't make any fit.

Vote to finish cut in fertiliser (6)

P*S*E*

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Sorry, typo above.

It should be L not S

so I guess its POLLEN

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Yep. Vote = poll. To finish = end, which if you "cut" becomes en.

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Two left today.

In dry home in secure environment (7)

B*T*I***

A society beset by money-grubbing ethos may be smeared (7)

**E*S*D

The last letter of the first is the first of the second.

I thought the second might be 'greased' and have no idea whatsoever with the first one.

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A society beset by money-grubbing ethos may be smeared (7)

**E*S*D

It's got to be greased which would make the 1st one either bathing or batting??