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Thanks, Dave – so it does! I missed that on my quick glance through the print edition clues. I’m thinking…
The print edition reads ‘curt and inane’.
Re-reading the published clue (a late addition to the Notes), I’m afraid that it is indeed nonsense, both superficially and…
9d would make more sense to me if the clue was ‘ Such as Circe. curt and inane within similarly…
We shall be looking out for you in your new guise. Your other moniker makes me think of Alexander Lemming,…
Thank’ee. Given that I knew of both the constituents I can only think that I must have dozily skipped or…
No, as I mentioned in the note to 28a, the answer to 31a isn’t in Chambers, and it’s not in…
Thanks, Steve – you would think that the online version was likely to be more up to date in terms…
The entry for 31a doesn’t appear in my 2011 edition of Chambers or in the mobile app or the web…
10a. The first ‘mostly’ doesn’t appear in the printed version, so the clue is correct there. Not sure if the…