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pwilmo

5th January 2011, 17:16
This has relly confounded me:

9 across..Plant,sort of allium,enjoying rare year(4,4)
please help
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mark

5th January 2011, 17:25
ALUM LILY
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mark

5th January 2011, 17:26
well actually ARUM LILY
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mark

5th January 2011, 17:28
It's an anagram of allium and r(are) y(ear)

apologies for earlier typo - finger trouble
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bullfrog

5th January 2011, 17:30
I got distracted upon discovering that the word 'allium' derives from the Greek phrase 'to leap out'.

That led me off looking for a phrase including the word 'leap', which is after all a 'rare year'...

Ah well.
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pwilmo

5th January 2011, 17:43
you're a champion man
many thanks
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