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jazzgirl

3rd October 2023, 21:17
re my last post maybe I had the wrong answer?
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buzzybee

3rd October 2023, 21:18
Jazzy
Answer is 3-letter word for "presided over" plus one of QI omitting the other.
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jazzgirl

3rd October 2023, 21:20
Doh! Thanks BuzzyBee. I should have parsed that
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jack aubrey

3rd October 2023, 21:21
Jazzgirl, A does not equal QI. Definition is “Queen”.
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jazzgirl

3rd October 2023, 21:27
Jack I had the correct word ( Hindu Queen);but had deducted the p and messed up the parsing.
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xwordfiend

3rd October 2023, 23:34
I did think of Frank that way. I just found the commingling of the definition and the wordplay to be a bit more haphazard than all of the other clues.
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kixie

5th October 2023, 15:26
I waited for missing clues to appear before tackling this and have now solved it to my satisfaction except for one clue which I cannot parse fully. I hoped to see it mentioned here but not so therefore I guess it is me. I refer to the “If I jump on rides...” clue. I applied ‘regularly’ to mean alternatively for all the first 5 words for the answer but when I ignored the expected redundant letter for the clue (M in this case) I was still actually left with one extra letter than I wanted, i.e. u and p. Is there a mistake in the clue or am I missing something?
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brendan

5th October 2023, 16:11
Hi Kixie,

The extra letter has to be treated like it was one of the correct letters and, as such, you also have to ignore the letter next to it, as you would with the others.

I hope that makes sense:-0
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malone

5th October 2023, 16:12
Kixie, I took it that if you took the letters regularly, in the usual crossword way, you would end up with ?? M???. With there being a superfluous letter, the M got dropped?
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brendan

5th October 2023, 16:18
Sorry Kixie, ignore my post, Malone is right - I think I'm hallucinating!!
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