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Hi really silly I know but can't get 11 across Assassin's assassin (4) R?B? is it ruby and why?! Thanks

Jack Ruby

Hi there - Ruby as in Jack Ruby who shot Lee Harvey Oswald, the killer of JFK.

THANKS FOR THE gREEK ONE -I'D HAVE BEEN HERE A WHILE SEARCHING FOR STOCK CHARACTERS IN GREEK COMEDY. THANKS AGAIN.

thank-you - easy when you know!

Still stuck for three.
21 Bud's type once. (3).G?M Gum or gem?

24 Also pedal cycles (5). O?a?s Ovals?

22 A rare trimmed tree (4). I've got ?r?r
No idea what this might be at all.

Thanks.
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opals and arar

Thanks, Neily. One more to go.

P

Hi pipesmoker
Your answer is GEM,which is a size of print.
Bud is also an obsolete word for a size of print.

What is the thinking on 17d Quick job in church (7) .i.i.g
living? but why ??

Hi there,

I think 'quick' is an old-fashioned word for alive/living, as in the expression 'The quick and the dead' i.e. the living and the dead.

A 'living' is the term used for a church appointment e.g. in Jane Austen they talk about clergymen being granted the 'living' of a particular parish.

This was my thinking anyway!

Cheers.