Brit xword
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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
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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 Lex - I really like these
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Re: Brit xword
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3. square number Old fashioned=square number=anaethetist 64=square number
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Re: Brit xword
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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
Wouldn't that jar your mustard!
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Re: Brit xword
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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
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7. Dire Straits 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
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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
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Another hint for the last one: the direct is at the start/on the left.
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OK - I'll take it.
Hard cheese - anag (race+she+hed)
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Re: Brit xword
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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.
Did you ever stop to think and then forget to start again?
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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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