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trialnerror

8th September 2011, 15:19
???S?E?L

Mine's terrible place for fragile material. If EGGSHELL, why?
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chips

8th September 2011, 15:25
It IS eggshell. Chambers gives one meaning of 'egg' as a bomb or mine.
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trialnerror

9th September 2011, 08:40
TY Chips. Here's another: why does "Secret prosal once in Cameron's speech" turn out to be HUGGER MUGGER. Don't quite get Merlin sometimes...
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trialnerror

9th September 2011, 08:41
Sorry that should read "proposal" not "prosal"...
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ajt1

9th September 2011, 08:59
hugger mugger - secret.


did Cameron once ask "hug a mugger?"
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trialnerror

9th September 2011, 09:04
Brilliant. Yes, I think he had a HUG A HOODIE campaign while Gordon Brown was robbing virtual pensioners
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trialnerror

9th September 2011, 09:52
G????Y

Platform - one for English in upper classes.

Gantry? Is that actually a platform, strictly speaking?
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fex

9th September 2011, 11:28
Yes, that's fine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantry
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ajt1

9th September 2011, 11:31
Yes, and the wordplay is - an instead of e in gentry
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trialnerror

9th September 2011, 14:12
Will I ever get done with this confounded thing?

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Gull - one I point out

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A coin's wasted here

Please, put me out of my misery
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