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Post by indophile Thu Jul 18, 2013 4:30 pm

Some recycled.

1. Team about to take on inventor. (6)
2. Trees discovered in Spanish manuscript. ( 4 )
3. Rub away a bread roll. (6)
4. Ribs to order in a restaurant. (6)
5. Bomb Middle Easterners' electricity. (5) 
6. Mentioned pet getting soft drinks.(5)

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Post by Hellsangel Thu Jul 18, 2013 4:35 pm

4. RIBS TO => BISTRO
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Post by bw Thu Jul 18, 2013 7:41 pm



1. Team about to take on inventor. (6)

EDISON ( rev of SIDE(team) + ON)

2. Trees discovered in Spanish manuscript. ( 4 )

ELMS (EL + ms)


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Post by goodcitizn Thu Jul 18, 2013 7:46 pm

6. Mentioned pet getting soft drinks.(5)

COLAS [homophone KOALAS]?

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Post by goodcitizn Thu Jul 18, 2013 7:48 pm

3. Rub away a bread roll. (6)

ABRADE [Anagram - a bread]

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Post by indophile Fri Jul 19, 2013 8:10 am

goodcitizn wrote:6. Mentioned pet getting soft drinks.(5)

COLAS [homophone KOALAS]?

 You are almost there. It's COKES, as a homophone of COAX. btw, I nicked this one from the Times (London).


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Post by indophile Fri Jul 19, 2013 8:14 am

All except #5 are solved. I thinks it's a little far out. I will just goa ahead and post the answer.

5. Bomb Middle Easterners' electricity. (5)  ------ JUICE, as a homephone of JEWS.

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Post by Hellsangel Fri Jul 19, 2013 8:28 am

#2 should have read *the* Spanish.
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Post by indophile Fri Jul 19, 2013 8:45 am

In cryptic clues. "the," "a," punctuation marks, etc., can be:

 - included to mean something
 - excluded if extraneous to the solution
 - included so the solver moves away from the correct solution.

It's the setter's choice. I excluded "the" in this clue to actually make it easier to solve the clue since the word "the" is extraneous to the solution ("Spanish" indicates a Spanish word in the answer, and so why telegraph what that word is?) .

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Post by Hellsangel Fri Jul 19, 2013 10:18 am

indophile wrote:In cryptic clues. "the," "a," punctuation marks, etc., can be:

 - included to mean something
 - excluded if extraneous to the solution
 - included so the solver moves away from the correct solution.

It's the setter's choice. I excluded "the" in this clue to actually make it easier to solve the clue since the word "the" is extraneous to the solution ("Spanish" indicates a Spanish word in the answer, and so why telegraph what that word is?) .

Yeah. And you take a lot of liberties with that Smile
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