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Can anyone help with this?
19d Car to run noisily to end of lane (5)
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This is one where I am assuming the answer is 'coupe' but I would feel a good deal happier if I understood why!
Can anyone ease my troubled mind?
Many thanks

i suppose it's a sounds like for chicken coop/run.
i found this one unusually difficult - i haven't finished it, in fact.

coup sounds like coop as in chicken run + (lan)e

for instance, i have been a birdwatcher for over 60 years, and have never seen the two words in 18a put together. looking through Google, it seems simply to be an incorrect name for a type of plover

Hi Chrise

I was happy with the answer when I put in the name of the bird and an 1832 illustration by Gould came up!

Thank you Chrise!
This makes sense now, so in it goes.
And that was my last one!

Thank you geting!
I wasn't making the link with a chicken run. All now makes sense!