Re: ===[**WCF**]=== Chain Crypt - Bout 69
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I'm going to slightly reclue this (trying to remember the actual wording of the clue as I saw it a week or two ago in a paper):
Shadowy senior figure behind the scenes who pulls the strings and makes enemies cringe (8,5) - a foreign expression
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Re: ===[**WCF**]=== Chain Crypt - Bout 69
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Another hint - it's an anagram.
Also I'm surprised Denis hasn't jumped on this as it's French!
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Re: ===[**WCF**]=== Chain Crypt - Bout 69
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I knew the answer because I had seen this one not long ago (was it here?), so didn't "cheat"!
Proof as a hint: Lord Grey in Paris...
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Re: ===[**WCF**]=== Chain Crypt - Bout 69
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Final hint before all is revealed, the four es are positioned thus:
e_ _ _ e _ _ e * _ _ _ _ e
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Re: ===[**WCF**]=== Chain Crypt - Bout 69
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I picked two words with four e's, "enemies cringe" and got eminence grise. Anagram.
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Re: ===[**WCF**]=== Chain Crypt - Bout 69
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Merci bien, Curly! Voici la babiole: ===[**WCF**]===
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Re: ===[**WCF**]=== Chain Crypt - Bout 69
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Thanks Lex. I have never heard 'babiole' before.
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Re: ===[**WCF**]=== Chain Crypt - Bout 69
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In "Ontario jouale", it's la belt! We'd be run out of the province if we used babiole!
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Re: ===[**WCF**]=== Chain Crypt - Bout 69
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I dug "babiole" out of the dictionary to mean bauble or trinket - is that incorrect?
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Re: ===[**WCF**]=== Chain Crypt - Bout 69
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It's probably correct, but I never heard it before. My French is not as good as Parisian French, we grew up using slang French. Ex: I say joual instead of cheval, which is very wrong.
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Re: ===[**WCF**]=== Chain Crypt - Bout 69
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===[**WCF**]===
All yours mxm.
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Re: ===[**WCF**]=== Chain Crypt - Bout 69
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Merci Curly Animal hides gold trophy in tree (9)
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Re: ===[**WCF**]=== Chain Crypt - Bout 69
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P or cup INE
or3 1. the tincture, or metal, gold: represented either by gold or by yellow.
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Re: ===[**WCF**]=== Chain Crypt - Bout 69
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Well done CD....===[**WCF**]===
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Re: ===[**WCF**]=== Chain Crypt - Bout 69
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Thank you kind Sir.
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Re: ===[**WCF**]=== Chain Crypt - Bout 69
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Thanks Denis. Next one from local source:
Clasp journalistic Lothario (5,4) No A
Last edited by Treval; 06/25/13 04:32 PM. Reason: No a instead of no e!
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Re: ===[**WCF**]=== Chain Crypt - Bout 69
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Thanks Treval...nice to see you back with us. Cast is not involved in this argument (5)
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Re: ===[**WCF**]=== Chain Crypt - Bout 69
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Woo Hoo ... a stumper !!! CluesNo 'a', 'i' or 'e', No 'x', 'y' or 'z'
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Re: ===[**WCF**]=== Chain Crypt - Bout 69
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