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pauljk

11th March 2018, 15:48
Down to two....
55ac. Group lying in grass,back to remember the good old days? (8)
?e?n?t??
51d. Country fellow who peered over wall(4)
?r??
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malone

11th March 2018, 15:58
51 Chad, country and the little man who peered over the wall in the graffiti. (I can't remember more details!)
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malone

11th March 2018, 16:00
Reunited,back to remember the good old days. Reed = grass and Unit, group.
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gareth235

11th March 2018, 16:11
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here
In Britain he was called Chad, and Americans called him Kilroy - like at the end of Kelly’s Heroes.
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malone

11th March 2018, 16:13
Thanks, gareth, I knew enough to answer the clue, but that was all!
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pauljk

11th March 2018, 21:06
Thanks for help earlier.
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youngbaz

12th March 2018, 17:47
Last one for me - 40d
'Tease flighty creature, unkind female creating trouble.'
I'm assuming it's 'titillate' as:

Answers total clue as 'tease'

it fits

Tit is a flighty creature

'Wicked' might be 'ill'?

But darned if I can parse the rest of it!
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chrise

12th March 2018, 17:56
ATE is a troublemaking GReek goddess (common in crosswords!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At%C3%AB
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youngbaz

12th March 2018, 18:00
The little bald head with the long nose peered over the wall and the slogan below always started: 'Wot no ....'. I was told the rest always referred to wartime shortages, as in: 'Wot no bananas!' But I was only born in 1942 but clearly remember loads of Chads still being around so it must have carried on for a few years after the war ended. Watneys later featured him in poster advertising - 'Wot no Watneys!'
Incidentally - and miles off topic, for which apologies - I can remember my mother bringing home a fresh banana for the first time, presumably after the war ended, and being amazed that they came as curved individuals in a yellow skin and were white inside as opposed to being brown and sticky, cylindrical and several stuck together, which is what I knew as bananas on the rare occasions I'd seen even those!
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youngbaz

12th March 2018, 18:03
Thanks Chris.
Now you mention it I have come across her before - perhaps when I'd been really certain the answer ended in 'ate' and I confirmed it in Chambers. Memory must be shot!
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