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Where goats go to escape
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Thank you and good morning, hlvp.

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ROBIN GOODFELLOW
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Evening all.

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STRIKING
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TWO
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Good day.

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POWER OF ATTORNEY
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IN THE FIRST PLACE
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WRECKED
EDIT. Hold fire on this. Can't quite work out the intertextual aspect of the parsing.

Possibly something like
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CRUSHED or SMASHED to include "She" an H. Rider Haggard novel.
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ODE
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FujiKiwi wrote: Sun Aug 16, 2020 5:58 am 17A
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WRECKED
EDIT. Hold fire on this. Can't quite work out the intertextual aspect of the parsing.

Possibly something like
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CRUSHED or SMASHED to include "She" an H. Rider Haggard novel.
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ODE
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TRASHED Classic = Trad(itional) around Haggard novel = SHE,
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Excellent. Thanks, hlvp.

EDIT: Of, course, those other two suggestions wouldn't have fit.
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TWO in words.
EDIT: Sorry. See Gumboot had this.
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HOUSTON
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LOCATE anagram
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= straightforward
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= Leo
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tabascoboy wrote: Sun Aug 16, 2020 7:54 am 3D
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I see it, now. Very clever. 👏.
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= port
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= marina
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Wouldn't have got this without tabasco's work on 3D, but

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GALLOWAY
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SYRACUSE
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SORT
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ACHE a chef, "cut"
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FujiKiwi wrote: Sun Aug 16, 2020 8:08 am Wouldn't have got this without tabasco's work on 3D, but

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GALLOWAY
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OGRE in clue
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Bother. I've got it wrong then, which would explain why I have been having such trouble with 19D.

And as a kiwi, I should know sheep.
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FAIRISH Angle = fish, around mood = air
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SIC(k)
Last edited by hlvp on Sun Aug 16, 2020 9:07 am, edited 1 time in total.
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ENLIST anag lines + t
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23A I think metaphorical!
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Struggling to parse it tho' TBH
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tabascoboy wrote: Sun Aug 16, 2020 9:07 am 23A I think metaphorical!
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Struggling to parse it tho' TBH
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River = flower around cOLd
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Doh, simples!
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tabascoboy wrote: Sun Aug 16, 2020 9:14 am Doh, simples!
Thinking too hard!
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hlvp wrote: Sun Aug 16, 2020 9:15 am
tabascoboy wrote: Sun Aug 16, 2020 9:14 am Doh, simples!
Thinking too hard!
I was trying to find a word to exclude 'C' :bimbo:
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NOTICE particular = nice, around OT
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SCHOONER
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ERASER anag rare + se
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STROLL
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ENTIRE vENt + tire
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