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TOPIC: Friday Cryptic Crossword Game
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Duncan Gardner
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ICQ#: Crusaders FC Gender: Male George Formby Maryland cookie Around the World in 80 days Hegel, don't bother me Willy and the Poorboys Location: the Underworld Birthday: 03/24
posted 29-01-2010 19:30

 
Supposedly permissive society near the Arctic Circle? (7)

PS apologies for the prism clue earlier. Pulled it off wikipedia, I assumed one of you would solve fairly quickly.
 
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ICQ#: Crusaders FC Gender: Male George Formby Maryland cookie Around the World in 80 days Hegel, don't bother me Willy and the Poorboys Location: the Underworld Birthday: 03/24
posted 30-01-2010 12:18

 
__ I __ __ I __ __
 
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#337374
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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 30-01-2010 13:25

 
Sixties man disconcerted by "Women's Lib" (4-6)
 
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#337383
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posted 30-01-2010 14:13

 
Emerging from anti-sexism, a type renowned for giving (and receiving) head

(6)

_ A _ _ _ _
 
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Last Edit: 30-01-2010 20:46 By Nefertiti2. Reason: clue
 
#337508
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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 31-01-2010 00:01

 
People working to free the confined and damaged mantis antennae try oil (7,13)
 
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#337514
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ICQ#: Tamworth, Lincoln City Gender: Male I'd like Sean Penn, but I'd probably get Sean Bean Viennese Whirl... mmm crumbly Mr Bump - Roger Hargreaves You can't polish a turd Radiohead - The Bends and all the Smiths stuff Location: Tamworth Birthday: 04/01
posted 31-01-2010 00:25

 
Amnesty International say Laotian must be released, turns out to be the last thing they wanted. (10)
 
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#337525
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posted 31-01-2010 01:53

 
This internment trouble, we hear, famously becoming wink in camisole.

(7, 8)

_ _ N _ _ _

_ _ _ _ N _ _ _
 
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#337692
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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 31-01-2010 22:55

 
By my reckoning, nef, that should be (6,8), with a Y for an I in the anagram fodder.
 
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#337695
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posted 31-01-2010 22:58

 
Yes you're right- apologies both for my dyscalculia and my misspelling.
 
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#337697
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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 31-01-2010 23:07

 
Almost intimate with Monica Lewinsky, though unaided! (5,3,2,5)
 
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#337700
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posted 31-01-2010 23:44

 
Close but no cigar, sadly.

(7)
 
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#337736
Duncan Gardner
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ICQ#: Crusaders FC Gender: Male George Formby Maryland cookie Around the World in 80 days Hegel, don't bother me Willy and the Poorboys Location: the Underworld Birthday: 03/24
posted 01-02-2010 08:46

 
Organic, us? Not while out on the razzle! (9)
 
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#337742
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posted 01-02-2010 09:08

 
Carousing chap, cowboy, follows desire with only half left.

(4, 6)
 
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#337748
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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 01-02-2010 09:52

 
Ah! I'd had a hunch that "wink in camisole" had to be an anagram, and that the letter count was therefore wrong.
 
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#337753
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posted 01-02-2010 10:13

 
Yes sorry. I've obviously got more fingers than I thought.
 
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posted 01-02-2010 13:09

 
Carousing chap, cowboy, follows desire without one left.

(4, 6)


_ _ _ _

_ O _ _ _
 
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Why at Last!
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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 01-02-2010 13:57

 
How many letters in the second word, 5 or 6?
 
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posted 01-02-2010 14:11

 
I can't believe I've done this again- 5
 
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#337858
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ICQ#: ABR, ABE Gender: Male graduate Bat Out of Hell Location: London Birthday: 11/03
posted 01-02-2010 15:24

 
I need to buy a consonant.
 
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#337884
Why at Last!
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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 01-02-2010 16:22

 
Yeah, come on nef, don't leave us adrift like this.
 
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