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TOPIC: Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
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ICQ#: ABR, ABE Gender: Male graduate Bat Out of Hell Location: London Birthday: 11/03
posted 01-04-2008 12:43

 
Quite a nice April Fools crossword in today's Guardian.
 
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ICQ#: Everton, Plymouth, Sapporo, Erps-Kwerps Gender: Male Miles Malleson Plain Chocolate Bahlsen Choco Liebniz Candide None of the Above Pet Sounds Location: I Get Around Birthday: 06/07
posted 01-04-2008 12:48

 
The "American hats" could alternatively be a reference to royal headgear.
 
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ICQ#: Everton, Plymouth, Sapporo, Erps-Kwerps Gender: Male Miles Malleson Plain Chocolate Bahlsen Choco Liebniz Candide None of the Above Pet Sounds Location: I Get Around Birthday: 06/07
posted 01-04-2008 15:15

 
To get to Melbourne, you might check out Thomas Cook.
 
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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 01-04-2008 16:40

 
Is this an April Fools trick?
 
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ICQ#: Everton, Plymouth, Sapporo, Erps-Kwerps Gender: Male Miles Malleson Plain Chocolate Bahlsen Choco Liebniz Candide None of the Above Pet Sounds Location: I Get Around Birthday: 06/07
posted 01-04-2008 16:46

 
Not in the least. I thought it was quite an easy one, but then I know the answer, I suppose.

Okay, I'll give you some letters.

CEJ.

But not JCT.
 
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ICQ#: Everton, Plymouth, Sapporo, Erps-Kwerps Gender: Male Miles Malleson Plain Chocolate Bahlsen Choco Liebniz Candide None of the Above Pet Sounds Location: I Get Around Birthday: 06/07
posted 02-04-2008 08:39

 
-E-------E
 
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ICQ#: Everton, Plymouth, Sapporo, Erps-Kwerps Gender: Male Miles Malleson Plain Chocolate Bahlsen Choco Liebniz Candide None of the Above Pet Sounds Location: I Get Around Birthday: 06/07
posted 02-04-2008 10:41

 
What a way to spend one's hundredth post.

-E-----I-E
 
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ICQ#: Everton, Plymouth, Sapporo, Erps-Kwerps Gender: Male Miles Malleson Plain Chocolate Bahlsen Choco Liebniz Candide None of the Above Pet Sounds Location: I Get Around Birthday: 06/07
posted 02-04-2008 11:41

 
-ER----I-E
 
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#4947
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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 02-04-2008 11:43

 
Got it.
 
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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 02-04-2008 11:46

 
Is rep in Derbyshire? (7,5)
 
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Last Edit: 02-04-2008 11:55 By Why at Last!.
 
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posted 02-04-2008 11:49

 
I know it's hard to say in retrospect, but was it really that tough?
 
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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 02-04-2008 11:51

 
I think making the hat singular would have helped with the spelling, but it's hard to know whether that would have helped. I was really very stuck on Victoria, with occasional desperate detours to South Cambridgeshire.
 
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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 02-04-2008 13:09

 
OK, try

Is Rep a Derbyshire landmark? (7,5)
 
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ICQ#: Everton, Plymouth, Sapporo, Erps-Kwerps Gender: Male Miles Malleson Plain Chocolate Bahlsen Choco Liebniz Candide None of the Above Pet Sounds Location: I Get Around Birthday: 06/07
posted 02-04-2008 13:17

 
I've got it. You'll probably understand what I mean when I say I'm having difficulty formulating a clue using the answer (in particular the first word) in a not-too-obvious way.
 
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Last Edit: 02-04-2008 13:27 By Andy C.
 
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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 02-04-2008 13:25

 
Yes.
 
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ICQ#: Everton, Plymouth, Sapporo, Erps-Kwerps Gender: Male Miles Malleson Plain Chocolate Bahlsen Choco Liebniz Candide None of the Above Pet Sounds Location: I Get Around Birthday: 06/07
posted 02-04-2008 13:27

 
Crooked spire rebel hen dismantled (13)
 
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posted 02-04-2008 13:27

 
Reprehensible arse covers up Govt. minister (6)
 
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Last Edit: 02-04-2008 13:29 By Duncan Gardner.
 
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ICQ#: Everton, Plymouth, Sapporo, Erps-Kwerps Gender: Male Miles Malleson Plain Chocolate Bahlsen Choco Liebniz Candide None of the Above Pet Sounds Location: I Get Around Birthday: 06/07
posted 02-04-2008 13:37

 
Well, that took a little less time to solve than my previous clue, thank heaven!
 
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ICQ#: Everton, Plymouth, Sapporo, Erps-Kwerps Gender: Male Miles Malleson Plain Chocolate Bahlsen Choco Liebniz Candide None of the Above Pet Sounds Location: I Get Around Birthday: 06/07
posted 02-04-2008 14:49

 
Parliamentarians, disorganised roué men mob H. Blears (10,7)
 
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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 02-04-2008 15:08

 
Honourable members of House struggling with trig (9)
 
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