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Pathetic, but need help finishing this! 38d:"Private car maintained by him?" (10)-e-v---m--
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17ac"Popular notion Curie developed about flowing water, source of energy"(4,5) i-e-/r---e
Thanks!

38d serviceman
17a idee recue

Many thanks, sudokulover

ps am native french-speaking, but have never heard the expression "idee recue;" received wisdom, perhaps?

An Idée reçue (pronounced [ide rəˈsy]) is a received, or accepted, idea. This term was used by Gustave Flaubert in his work Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues to refer to a catchphrases and platitudes, most of which are as paradoxical as they are insipid.



...from Wikipedia

Merci, Paul!