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penfold_61
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 Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 8:30 am Post subject: DIY COW #010 - COMB |
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Yes I know the last one was number 7 but there had been 5 on the original thread so the first numbered challenge should have been 6, not 4, so we're two out.
Anyway, as we've just started keeping chickens in our garden I wanted to reflect that in the word. Also, as nothing tests a setter's ingenuity like a short word I wanted to go for 3 or 4 letters. So, see what you can do with:
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anax
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Oh, thanks mate! One of my recent Times ones used the "business storage unit" (CO+MB) element and it took me bloody ages to come up with that. Got to start all over again now.
Looking forward to it, actually.
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penfold_61
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 8:50 am Post subject: |
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Unlucky.
Hopefully there are enough different definitions and possible wordplay elements to elicit a number of different treatments. |
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anax
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Challenge happily accepted.
Marshal locks mafia leader in other half of pen (4)
M(afia) in COB (swan)
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AngryVocab
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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Search a noncombatant for card (4)
hidden nonCOMBatant + card = comb (and coincidently search = comb) |
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boxwood
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| Groom back in rehab mockery (4) |
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boxwood
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Seek mantra in Citizens' Band (4) |
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anax
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60s group snubbing old ex-friend of Bobby Charlton? (4)
Just being silly now. Anyway - COMB(o)
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AngryVocab
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Rooster's peak cry over morning's blue beginnings
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anax
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Search for this is not a number one priority? (4)
Double meaning - "number one" = extremely close cropped hairstyle.
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penfold_61
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Come on folks...
Search for moose's head in a bread roll in the Midlands |
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penfold_61
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| Make straight hundred having first to outwit and master opening bowler |
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anax
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Swine! While you were doing that I was working on another straightforward "first letters" idea:
One of setter's devices, initials used in crosswords on most broadsheets (4)
Still, at least you can't vote for your own..
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Business openings for metal buckets? Order mop! (4)
CO + M(etal) B(uckets)
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I'm like a scratched record, me.
Amateur radio hosts honour Hair choreographer (4)
C.B. outside O.M.
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