Re: ===[**CDM**]=== crossword clue chain
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Well, this should help a little: The answer is not an adverb. But you've got the right idea about the albatross, in that it's being used metaphorically rather than literally. Finally... Everything to the right of the comma is part of the definition.
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Re: ===[**CDM**]=== crossword clue chain
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...more seriously, is the answer the name of someone who left play, or perhaps a play, under less than ideal circumstances (such as Abraham Lincoln leaving the theatre when shot)?
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Re: ===[**CDM**]=== crossword clue chain
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So that's where "Exit, pursued by a bear" comes from. Thanks Demosthenes!
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Re: ===[**CDM**]=== crossword clue chain
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Thank you: I had seen reference to that Antigonus and was aware of the stage direction but had not linked the two (The Winter's Tale not being one of Shakespeare's plays with which I have much familiarity). Probably more a case of left before end of play with alacrity! A pair of clues this time: 1. Worried 2 panics, perhaps (13) 2. 1 worked in a special school (13)
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Re: ===[**CDM**]=== crossword clue chain
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1. vcvccvvccvvcc 2. cvccvccvcvvcv and as you have probably already worked out, these are anagrams of each other one of the consonants is repeated as are two of the vowels
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Re: ===[**CDM**]=== crossword clue chain
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1. starts with o and ends with s 2. starts with c and ends with e the repeated consonant is r and the repeated vowels e and o (two of each) I have to admit that the limited word play made these tricky even in a crossword grid where we had one or two letters from other answers
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Re: ===[**CDM**]=== crossword clue chain
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Okay, here are the answers with all vowels in correct positions: 1. o-e--ea--io-- 2. -o--e--a-oi-e
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Re: ===[**CDM**]=== crossword clue chain
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What, still no takers??! In alphabetical order, the consonants are cnrrstv
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Re: ===[**CDM**]=== crossword clue chain
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We've got the words, Lex, just not the reasoning. Wait, writing that did it for me. 1. overreactions 2. conservatoire Each clue references the answer to the other. But while that's clever, I'm not sure it's fair. An anagram clue has to specifically provide the letters to be anagrammed.
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Re: ===[**CDM**]=== crossword clue chain
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Thanks Sue: as you say, these were stretching the usual more conventional parameters, especially as neither clue had any key apart from being an anagram of the other (usually when I have seen this device used there is at least one clue with enough wordplay to help establish an initial answer which is then the foundation for one or more anagrams in related clues}. Here is your reward: ===[**CDM**]===
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Re: ===[**CDM**]=== crossword clue chain
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It was different and fun, Lex. I eat after 10 (6)
The moon is actually more useful than the sun since the moon gives us light at night when it's dark. The sun only gives us light during the day when it's already bright out.
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Re: ===[**CDM**]=== crossword clue chain
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I really like this one! iodine (10 dine)
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Re: ===[**CDM**]=== crossword clue chain
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Thank you, Sue! Sorry for the delay. I was welcoming my new granddaughter into the world! Note: blue mixture apt to break down in water (7)
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