DT Crossword Saturday

Where goats go to escape
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Thanks hlvp. No doubt you have this all under control, but if you'll let me chip in:

12A
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MODUS OPERANDI
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I'm always good for one, but fecked if I can get any of the others. These clues drive me mental.
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Eureka

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GRAND NATIONAL
I'm not gonna lie. That's taken me an hour to figure out.

Please don't tell me it's wrong.

Please.
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9A
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ARENA
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Please, tabascoboy, don't go. I need your help.
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I'm out of practice here... 6A
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I posted 12A then saw you got in the first reply, doh!

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= craniology
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tabascoboy wrote: Sat Jul 11, 2020 12:24 pm I'm out of practice here... 6A
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You could be right but I don't see how it ties in with the clue. I never get the clues anyway till someone like kiap comes and patiently explains them to me.

I'm going to take t as being correct and work from there.👍
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tabascoboy wrote: Sat Jul 11, 2020 12:26 pm I posted 12A then saw you got in the first reply, doh!

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Yeah, I saw that. I was torn between boasting that I already had that one and begging you to stay, because I have been trapped here for an hour trying to figure these out.

Out of my league, but transfixed by the need to solve at least one, and then one more.
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tabascoboy wrote: Sat Jul 11, 2020 12:26 pm I posted 12A then saw you got in the first reply, doh!

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Fuck me, that's good. Bravo.
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17A
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= cosmic
11D
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= tar and feather
22D
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= Natal
21A
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= draining board
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Oh 1D
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= chat
Gah
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= disco dance
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All so good. I’d spent so long trying to figure those out (admittedly in an alcohol-induced haze after the Blues game). You’re a legend, tabasco. 👍🏿
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FujiKiwi wrote: Sat Jul 11, 2020 12:27 pm
tabascoboy wrote: Sat Jul 11, 2020 12:24 pm I'm out of practice here... 6A
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You could be right but I don't see how it ties in with the clue. I never get the clues anyway till someone like kiap comes and patiently explains them to me.

I'm going to take t as being correct and work from there.👍
Parsing for 6A
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rEdPrInCe, i.e. the letters appear "regularly" in REDPRINCE. Definition is "seen in someting like _War and Peace_"
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CATEGORISE, EGO RISE + CAT
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SKIMP, SKIP + Motorway
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RESISTER, REgarding + SISTER
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STARVED, STARED + Very
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24A
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NOVELETTE, Note + lOVELETTEr
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26A
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entertainEDDAnes
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27A
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PLAYWRIGHT, PLIGHT + Wife + AYR which I suppose is some Sweaty place. Googling... right, town and even a county
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14A
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ILLFATED, ILL + FED + A Temperature
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So now 2D is obviously
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THERMAL, THE + Runs + MALady? With "To do" meaning something like "unfinished" ?
but not sure I got the parsing right
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16d
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DIMBLEBY anag
23d
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STET
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7D
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POLENTA PA around O (ordinary)+LENT (fasting)
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19A
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JIFFY BAG iffy b in jag
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I think missing is still
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BIDDING, BIDING + Diamonds
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and 15A
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ENTAIL ENgland + TAIL (Cricket. <spits>)
Thanks hlvp !
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