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whetstone

3rd September 2023, 09:46
Thanks all.
I think the RA in MYRA might be Royal Artillery?
SKATE...still a bit of a mystery if I'm honest!
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jono

3rd September 2023, 09:50
Apologies, RE was my typo, I meant RA, so yes, Royal Artillery.

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jazzgirl

3rd September 2023, 10:02
whetstone
Skate explained by my two posts. Current being electricity
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jono

3rd September 2023, 10:35
Looking for the skate clue, I found a link that brought me back to this forum and to a discussion from 2009…

https://www.crosswordsolver.org/forum/4804/dt-25830/
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jono

3rd September 2023, 10:45
Collins:-
Skate - “a current collector on an electric railway that collects its current from a third rail”.

This seems the likely intended reference, but I like the fish explanation too. As Big Dave said at the time, maybe we’ll never know what the compiler intended.
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jazzgirl

3rd September 2023, 11:01
Jono, Well I never !
Collins seems to be the only reference to this. The Concise Oxford and Chambers are lacking
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whetstone

3rd September 2023, 11:34
Thanks Everyone. Makes sense...
In British English, we tend to just call it the 'third rail'...
https://www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/looking-after-the-railway/track/third-rail/
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jazzgirl

3rd September 2023, 11:38
Thank you Whetstone . I have just learned something new
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whetstone

8th September 2023, 21:21
17d. Dead on drug
SPECIFIC

9a. End of disease in hospital initially exceptionally clean
SANITISE

3d. An act that violates an act
CRIME

6d. One bird or another protecting egg that's very big
GOOSANDER

Parses for the above please.
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jono

8th September 2023, 21:47
17. Double def. A specific is a medicine or remedy for a particular disease

9. -ITIS (denoting disease) in SAN (hospital) + E (initially exceptionally)

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