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jazzgirl

12th June 2018, 12:45
Brand is an archaic word for a sword
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jazzgirl

12th June 2018, 12:47
...and an epee is a type of sword
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jazzgirl

12th June 2018, 12:50
17d clue reads

crawl daily into ordinary outskirts of antwerp
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david w

12th June 2018, 12:51
Thanks jazzgirl. I think of myself as fairly archaic but I've never heard of that!
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jazzgirl

12th June 2018, 12:54
Chambers shows brand as "a sword from its glitter"
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elle

12th June 2018, 12:56
Ah, thank you, JG!
I was rather going out on a limb trying to parse "soft-soap" ...but assuming parts were missing from the clue was the only way it made sense!
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jazzgirl

12th June 2018, 12:59
Elle, Mistakes in clues being posted on forum are quite common now :(
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elle

12th June 2018, 13:16
Ah well, JG...….it means we shall have to develop "detecting " powers as well as proficiency in parsing!
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jazzgirl

12th June 2018, 13:22
;0)
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