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meursault

20th June 2016, 21:06
Yes, thanks Wintonian for a useful comment earlier. I needed to be reminded that the speaker's name should also be in the anagram. I think if you try to anagram so many letters you end up with some latitude, but it was nicely achieved anyway.
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xij

20th June 2016, 22:29
Fabulous crossword. Bloody murder to begin with but easier as it went on. Didn't think I had a ghost of a chance of finishing. Had to wander off a few times to clear my head. As for the final bit, hats off to Artix. Unbelievable. Just one bad mark for me, cannot get the original word for 12a. I'm probably not the only one though. Incidentally, and this is the truth, my mother was Danish, God rest her soul.
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wintonian

20th June 2016, 22:55
xij, the untreated answer to 12ac is a Hebrew plural that means "the scribes, the expounders of the Jewish oral law". The word is listed in my edition of Bradford's Crossword Completer under "scribe".

This was one of the many excellent clues in this week's puzzle. It's a very elegant "& lit." type clue. I have to admit that I used an on-line anagram solver to find the word, as I didn't remember it from any previous puzzle. I also used the anagram solver to find the treated form of the word, dropping successive letters until I found an answer that fitted with a definition in another clue.
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rickye

21st June 2016, 08:19
Getting close to the finishing line. 34 still blank but looks like wander. But I wonder why as I wander. I also assume 21 has V at the unchecked letter though do not find the definition satisfying. The first word does look like rearrange as someone said earlier. Lost one of the other letters but seem to have TEEPEMIR. Have probably lost the letter in 22d.
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rickye

21st June 2016, 08:22
Aha! R. So 34 makes sense.
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rickye

21st June 2016, 17:12
What a brilliant crossword. Huge congratulations to Artix. Wow!
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gitto

21st June 2016, 17:51
Sometimes the brilliance of the theme and the art of construction just leaves me in awe. As a solver, I feel humble.
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rrrobbo

21st June 2016, 17:55
Yup, that sure is clever. I'm done, but can't quite see the absolute parsing of 16, 18, 21 and 22. Subtle hints to ease my mind will enhance my already high level of gratitude to the contributors here, without whom none of this would be possible.
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unclued

21st June 2016, 19:52
16 is anag + R - I
18 BARREL -A + O
21 GRO(+O)VE + D
22 Not sure!
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meursault

21st June 2016, 19:52
Disappointed to see that the website has an advert telling people which way to vote. I think there may be a clue there somewhere - the advert is targeted at people who are too stupid to make up their own minds. But how inappropriate is 'hope'. I can think of another 4-letter word beginning with H that is more appropriate to Leave...

rrrbbo, I wasn't entirely happy with 16, Enablers as Qualifiers...but r (for take) with (baseline - i). 18 : Substitute O for A in a common word for liquid container. 21 : Old hippy slang, now adopted by the bourgeoisie (derived from 'get down and groove). 22D has roots close to home for me, both in the origin of the travellers and the destination. There was an old Stranglers song "...they came across the West Sea..." - the North Sea was known thus to the Danes - 'they' when they landed on the east coast of Ireland were called 'Ostmen'. I remember discussions about dhu ghaill and fion ghail, and although the Danes were loosely referred to as Norsemen, I think in fact they were the 'dark strangers' and the Norwegians were the 'fair strangers.'
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