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Capture girl with crook without tiniest protest, and without one proof of claim (6)

Capture: bottle
girl with crook: BO PEEP
without tiniest protest: BO
without one(,) proof of claim: T(I)TLE

I'd like to go for peterm @ 13, please.

@ aristo in case Les is working his parses as follows;

Startle = boggle
Horse = gg
Race = TT (the isle of man TT motorbike race)
Definition: takings (from a race), bookmaking slang. It's in Chambers.

Ah, yes. I've run into the Isle of Man race in crosswords. Totally slipped my mind. Thanks, ginge!

Aristo, I've texted Marty, so he should be able to parse his own.

aristo #2 please, with peterm #13 a close second. had to look up that meaning of Optic!

Heathcliff @ 27

Rosalind @ 8

Hello aristo - post30

restrain- defn, (in the sense keep back, hold in)

one of the older ones that lost their marbles - cryptic def with a reference to the old style bottles with round glass stoppers which were invariably smashed so the kids could release the "marble" to play with.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codd-neck_bottle

mattrom 29