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Obscure vault 99 (7)
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It's the cryptic crossword discussion game. Tease each other with clues, help each other with the dailies, educate the beginners, whatever.
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So, in all, how many outstanding clues are there now? I think it's just my Punctuation... one above.
Hit digits have winning card -- and French end self-congratulation (4,4,3,7)
Woo-hoo! I actually managed to complete Araucaria's Saturday Guardian outing unaided this week! Not much to brag about by the standards here, but quite an achievement for me. There were definitely a couple of weak clues, including one of those "girls" rab was just complaining about and what seemed to me a very dodgy thing about drifts, shelves and breakfasts. Happy bunny all the same :)
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[matt] Wow! I think I've only ever got a single Arucaria. Once. We are not worthy, etc.
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Well the reason you're all making such a song & dance about the ION of POSITION is that it isn't ION(ESCU) ... you're all ignoring the "back" NO.1 back = ION, and I think No.1 is a reasonable leader.
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BTW I wouldn't dream of using Ion Iliescu, the Romanian leader in such a context without at least pointing to the country, for as rab says such clues are wildly unfair. I also agree about some of the other vague letter clues - one of the most annoying being "notes" for any of the letters A,B,C,D,E,F,G - If that's allowable (and it generally is) then you might as well allow "letters" and have all 26 !
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