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OED gives 'stolid' as:

'Abounding in beef; resembling beef; fleshy; obese; stolid or brawny.'

together with this example from Samuel Smiles' 'Self-Help' (1859):

"This dunce had a dull energy and a sort of beefy tenacity of purpose." 

I suspect there's a connection with terms such as beef-headed and beef-witted.

Thanks spoffy - interesting

Yes,k thanks both. I only have Chambers now and it's good to know that OED backs the setter!
Too be honest that what I thought, stolid = beefy! But that's not what I found when checking in Chambers.

Also OED gives 'bovine' as:

[fig.] Inert, sluggish; dull, stupid

which is pretty much the meaning of the Latin adjective 'stolidus'.

Yes bovine could be having the psyche of a cow but beefy surely is having the body of a cow.
So not stolid.

Thanks to gitto for parsing 14a (5)

Can anyone help with 21a (5)

I seem to have..."Injures duke drinking partner bubbly obscuring taste of Viagra" left and am assuming the defn is injures

Hi Ixion,

I think it's "Injures aged duke served bubbly obscuring taste of Viagra"

Definition = Injures *aged"/archaic and is an anagram/"bubbly" of "served" minus/"obscuring" V(iagra).

Sorry, "Duke" shouldn't be there.

Ah, thanks brendan : )

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