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Valentines Day Massacre with Hints
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02/14/19 05:46 AM
02/14/19 05:46 AM
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Bucks, England
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The answers to the following clues can be found by massacring the letters found in Valentinesday. Each letter can be used as many times as it appears in the original phrase, and the answers are in order of increasing length.
Feel free to take a couple
-1. Monetary unit equal to 100 stotinki (3)
-2. River in northern England (4)
-3. Sediment from an alcoholic drink l---
-4. Tough flexible plastic, used for coverings (5)
-5. Motor manufacturer T---- think electric
-6. Nautical term meaning "stop" (5)
-7. Body part often contemplated (5)
-8. Case d----- think grammar
-9. Yellowish brown pigment (6)
-10. Fermentation agent
-11. French isle in the Mediterranean
-12. Ingenuousness
-13. Heavenly E------ think mythology
-14. Type of oil, used to maintain cricket bats (7)
-15. Material used to block gaps (7)
-16. Mass per unit volume (7)
-17. Cookery flavouring
-18. Time and place of a news item
-19. Check for correctness v-------
-20. Drooled (9)
-21. To remove sodium chloride from (10)
Last edited by Urban Worrier; 02/16/19 05:14 PM.
To waste one second of one's life is a betrayal of one's self.
I wonder what's on television...?
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Re: Valentines Day Massacre
[Re: Urban Worrier]
#1177780
02/15/19 04:02 PM
02/15/19 04:02 PM
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Bucks, England
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manxman, michele - all good!  OB - nice try, but I've got another fermentation agent - think Biblical  Hints tomorrow...
Last edited by Urban Worrier; 02/15/19 04:06 PM.
To waste one second of one's life is a betrayal of one's self.
I wonder what's on television...?
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Re: Valentines Day Massacre
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02/15/19 04:10 PM
02/15/19 04:10 PM
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Unionville
manxman
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10. leaven 11. Levant 
Last edited by manxman; 02/15/19 04:13 PM.
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Re: Valentines Day Massacre with Hinta
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02/16/19 07:13 AM
02/16/19 07:13 AM
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Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Redz
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I was a whiz at grammar in high school, having gone to a Catholic school where they stressed it. Had it in college too. So, I'm hoping the answer is... 8. dative 19. validate 
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