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Help needed with these clues please.Thanks. 7 down You'll need to rattle object inside jagged rock to find this big fish(8)?R?????? 16 down Oribi,e.g.,fourth lost after good old soldiers ran it punishingly(8)?AN????E 25 down In the past, a test when there were no women?(6)??E??E 17 across One avenue's opening separating trees arranged in rows(7)??R???E

16 Gantlope (gauntlet)...Oribi (antelope) 4th lost (e) following G ..

arapaima: jagged rock = aa, rap + aim
gantlope: g + ant[e]lope
preeve: pre eve
seriate: i + a inside anag. of trees

Thanks a lot, chrisg and peterm

Did anyone have a thought about whether 9A could be reverse of A LOSS cut short?

what is the clue loki ?

Loki
Still not convinced by 9A. Why German?
A loss cut short reversed? But an iffy definition for that
Post 24 of 25Posted: 10th December 2010, 00:52
ixion
9 Reversal of fortune cut short with a versatile crop? (4)

Ans not sola

fortune=joss
Post 25 of 25Posted: 10th December 2010, 01:00

Loki - we seem to be going round in circles on 9ac. Fortune cut short = jos[s]. Reverse that + a = soja. Soja is an alternative spelling of soya. I presume your reference to German goes back to Post 8 in the other thread. I was simply trying to give a nudge in the right direction without explicitly giving the answer.

It would have been better not to have started a second thread.

Loki no lookie!