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well done ginge -not often do we get a lanslide

thanks to fj for hosting

Very many thanks for your votes chrise, skyewalker, aristo, kt17 & Paul and the mention mattrom, cheers fiery.

@ chrise: at the risk of boring everyone, yourself included, this one fell into place by luck rather than the usual lots of effort/trial and error. The fodder "difficult" letters were y, f, b, r X2, and p & d in terms of the total number of letters. Fly (with off or away as anagrind) would get rid of the f & y so I started thinking of birds and robin came to mind. I then played around with pidgeon for about half an hour and couldn't put a coherent surface together. I then tried partridge and (s)tarling jumped out, so by pluralising them all that was left to do was tag on a subtraction indicator and definition. Good luck most definitely this time.

Sounds like hours of work, ginge - you undersell yourself!

Thanks for taking the time to explain.

Nice one, Ginge! Very impressive. A big thank you to you and Tyke51 for the votes, and to Mattrom for the mention. Much appreciated. Cheers, Fiery, for the challenge.

Well done, Ginge! Thanks for your vote, Spike, and to Chrise, Ginge and SW for the mention.
Cheers. FJ.

Well done Ginge and thanks fir the mention!
Cheers FJ - wish I’d thought of cougar!
Thanks also to Mattrom and SW for the mentions and parsing.

Apologies Ginge I'm normally able to post the prize on a Saturday but there is scaffolding up doing needy repairs, if the Mitchell is open Monday I'll post the prize then.
It was going to be a track from the new Pixies album "Beneath the Eyrie"
If anyone is interested they can check it out

Congrats Ginge, thanks for hosting FJ and thanks ChrisE and Ginge for the mentions.

A worthy winner!