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Obscure vault 99 (7)
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Ah. Can't do them.
Hints required?
The first is O _ _ _ _ _ _ _, the second is a moderately obscure word borrowed from Latin.
Seeing the half light ...
[Raak] The first one must be ORATORIO [orator + io].. Quite straightforward with the first letter given.
I haven't had time to study the second clue, but is the definition borrowed from Latin?
[Chalky] The word means the same in English as it did in Latin. And of course, the definition is in the clue.
Another clue for the same word:
He'd waste away if sent back to the Soviet Union, but not beyond the last. (5)
Another clue
Poirot used to have someone back to make his shoes. (5)
And two more
"Nonsense!" we wrote back to the cobbler. (5)
Besides the dominie, the other learned man in a Scottish village. (5) (May require specialised knowledge, such as one of Neil Innes' novels.)
Here's another
Some understood the original reason, both at first and at last. (5)
I presume these are all clues to the same word...
They are indeed, and here's two more.
At last, the southern aristocrat has reached the door to Germany. (5)
Roust! Roust! At last! (5)
Of the eight clues:
one consists of just the definition,
one is an anagram,
one is an embedding,
one subtracts a letter from a word,
one uses initial letters,
and three break the word down and clue its components.
(These descriptions are in alphabetical order.)
Right, I geddit...
SUTOR, but never heard of it before
Correct!
Rare, even obsolete down south, but it may linger on in the Scottish dialect.
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