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Can anyone explain please!
1. Royal retreat hard to find in island- mapmakers' practice is to circle Ans Osborne House
2. Frank striving to jog from pole to pole Ans outspoken
3.Battle the French abandoned for entertainment Ans Panto

3 Battle was "Lepanto"

Hard to find in island Borneo with h+ practice - use + mapmakers OS - OS borne H o use - royal retreat?

3. I think 'Lepanto' is/was a famous battle, and you drop the 'le'/ French for 'the'.
2. 'Outspoken' has 'poke', jog, in it and also 's' and 'n' are the two poles (south, north) . I don't know where the 'out' comes from -unless it can mean 'striving'?

Malone. I was thinking along exactly the same lines for outspoken.

Thank you for all that - so quickly!