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Brit xword #875801
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Haven't done one of these for a while, so here are a few from a recent paper:

* 1. CND marcher, for example, and what one carried? (6) - banner

* 2. Bad luck in race - she and he'd fallen (4,6) - hard cheese

* 3. Old fashioned anaesthetist, 64 maybe? (6,6) - square number

* 4. Embarrassed, being wrong about hard misleading clue (3,7) - red herring

* 5. Beast about to take home Sophia Loren perhaps (8) - brunette

* 6. River in Twilight, not Eyck's last (5) - Indus

* 7. Artists, by implication, in rock band? (4,7) (- hoping someone can explain the full justification for this one!) - Dire Straits

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Re: Brit xword [Re: Lex] #875802
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4. Embarrassed, being wrong about hard misleading clue (3,7)

red herring - misleading clue

red - embarrassed
erring - being wrong, about h(ard) - herring


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thanks Lex - I really like these smile

Re: Brit xword [Re: Lex] #875809
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1. Banner - double def. Like that one... smile


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Re: Brit xword [Re: Lex] #875827
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3. square number
Old fashioned=square
number=anaethetist
64=square number wave


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Re: Brit xword [Re: Lex] #875841
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All on target thumbsup


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Re: Brit xword [Re: Lex] #875871
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5. Beast about to take home Sophia Loren perhaps (8)

Sophia Loren perhaps = brunette (direct)
brute (beast) about (inc. ind.) net (take home) = bru(net)te

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Re: Brit xword [Re: Lex] #875880
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6. Indus (in twilight = in dusk minus the 'k' which is the last letter of Eyck) wave thumbsup

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Re: Brit xword [Re: Lex] #875903
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Two more good answers! smile


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Re: Brit xword [Re: Lex] #876008
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Hint time: #2 is an anagram, and #7 is at least part anagram I think...


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Re: Brit xword [Re: Lex] #876125
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7. Dire Straits smile

The only thing I can think of is that the "dire" in the answer is the anagram indicator. Hence the "implication"(???).

Very unsatisfactory, I agree.


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Re: Brit xword [Re: Lex] #876169
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That's my answer Rog, and in the crossword grid it had to be correct.

I was wondering about "rock" being the anagram indicator and "dire" somehow being an anagram of something meaning "by implication."


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Re: Brit xword [Re: Lex] #876210
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Another hint for the last one: the direct is at the start/on the left.


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Re: Brit xword [Re: Lex] #876211
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OK - I'll take it.

Hard cheese - anag (race+she+hed)


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Thank you good sir for polishing it off! Possibly not a familiar expression to our friends across the ocean.

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I've never heard of it but that doesn't mean it isn't a known phrase o'er here.


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Re: Brit xword [Re: Lex] #876261
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Artists, by implication, in rock band? (4,7)

Methinks "by implication" means "as indicated by answer";
the answer being an anagram indicator + fodder.

In a contest, such a clue would be tagged as a "special clue",
and an example given.


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