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posted 09-02-2010 14:15

 
Blimey, I'm not sure I'd ever have worked that out. I'd say the clue is slightly dodgy not just because of the railway thing, but also because once you take off the "RY" from "cleverly" you're left with "clevel" - so the "and" is appended rather than swallowed, surely.
 
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ICQ#: Newcastle United Gender: Male James Gandolfini Ginger nuts, man, no contest, silly question The Selfish Gene Have a good time ALL the time Not album, single: Pretty Vacant, as perf. on TOTP Location: Cockayne
posted 09-02-2010 14:18

 
Yes, it's too dependent on the order of operations, as you say.

New page, so again:

Power relationships depicted in William Hogarth's mischievous "As Hot Turns Cold" (11,4)
 
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posted 09-02-2010 14:31

 
Playful art log lost in revision of logarithmic laws (9)
 
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posted 09-02-2010 15:05

 
Whimsical actor, we heard.

(3, 10)
 
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posted 09-02-2010 18:19

 
Drip in scene played opposite Ian Carmichael? [6,5]
 
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ICQ#: Newcastle United Gender: Male James Gandolfini Ginger nuts, man, no contest, silly question The Selfish Gene Have a good time ALL the time Not album, single: Pretty Vacant, as perf. on TOTP Location: Cockayne
posted 09-02-2010 18:48

 
Might cost Dennis price, but should pay in the long term? (1,4,10)
 
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ICQ#: Newcastle United Gender: Male James Gandolfini Ginger nuts, man, no contest, silly question The Selfish Gene Have a good time ALL the time Not album, single: Pretty Vacant, as perf. on TOTP Location: Cockayne
posted 10-02-2010 10:40

 
_ / W _ _ _ / _ _ V _ _ _ _ _ _ _
 
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posted 10-02-2010 11:17

 
Shopkeeper makes a wise investment (new entry) into amphibian (9)
 
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posted 10-02-2010 14:03

 
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#341082
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posted 10-02-2010 14:13

 
Adornments of the newsagent and the golfer (7)
 
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ICQ#: Newcastle United Gender: Male James Gandolfini Ginger nuts, man, no contest, silly question The Selfish Gene Have a good time ALL the time Not album, single: Pretty Vacant, as perf. on TOTP Location: Cockayne
posted 10-02-2010 16:43

 
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posted 10-02-2010 16:55

 
To perform topless while wearing singularly odd tassels is injudicious (8)
 
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ICQ#: Newcastle United Gender: Male James Gandolfini Ginger nuts, man, no contest, silly question The Selfish Gene Have a good time ALL the time Not album, single: Pretty Vacant, as perf. on TOTP Location: Cockayne
posted 10-02-2010 17:22

 
Oops, sorry, nothing to see here.
 
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#341198
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ICQ#: Newcastle United Gender: Male James Gandolfini Ginger nuts, man, no contest, silly question The Selfish Gene Have a good time ALL the time Not album, single: Pretty Vacant, as perf. on TOTP Location: Cockayne
posted 10-02-2010 17:27

 
Scottish town's whole character is tactless, but mostly very restrained (9)
 
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ICQ#: Newcastle United Gender: Male James Gandolfini Ginger nuts, man, no contest, silly question The Selfish Gene Have a good time ALL the time Not album, single: Pretty Vacant, as perf. on TOTP Location: Cockayne
posted 10-02-2010 21:25

 
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ICQ#: Walton and Hersham, Cambridge United, Arsenal Gender: Male David Mitchell Apple, raisin and cinnamon cookie 'The Prodigal God', Tim Keller John 10:10 Prefab Sprout Location: Cambridge Birthday: 01/03
posted 10-02-2010 22:07

 
Inverness Caledonian Thistle against Hearts: it's stoked up opening game coverage, reaching excess (10)
 
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Last Edit: 10-02-2010 23:35 By irony towers. Reason: better reading
 
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ICQ#: Walton and Hersham, Cambridge United, Arsenal Gender: Male David Mitchell Apple, raisin and cinnamon cookie 'The Prodigal God', Tim Keller John 10:10 Prefab Sprout Location: Cambridge Birthday: 01/03
posted 11-02-2010 12:25

 
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#341512
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ICQ#: Sri Lanka & Ireland. And Bangladesh Gender: Male John Fortune Newnes pictorial knowledge Willy and the poorboys Location: Rough outside leg stump Birthday: 03/24
posted 11-02-2010 12:42

 
Forget that, wrong letter count. As you were...
 
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posted 11-02-2010 12:51

 
You have something with the over- at the start though.
 
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posted 11-02-2010 13:51

 
I'm a bit slow off the mark here, but did anyone else catch Brendan's anti-war themed puzzle in yesterday's Guardian? Not a hugely tricky solve, but absolutely terrific stuff, I thought, with some really pleasing clues.
 
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