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oudemia

5th February 2012, 12:24
I'm stumped with this one! Can't start working out the misprints till I've got all the clues and I'm still missing a few.
'Put an end to shrewd ruler' (7)
'tube reduction not about to change' (7)
'zulu king scured a fine cup bearer' (4)
Would be very grateful for any help/hints - thanks!
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chips

5th February 2012, 13:10
1st one - Toparch
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oudemia

5th February 2012, 14:18
Thank you so much, I''d never have got that!
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chips

5th February 2012, 14:28
The second one is a word for tube/pipe - take the re(about) out of 'reduction' and it's an anagram of that!
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serpentinewe

5th February 2012, 21:29
'zulu king scured a fine cup bearer' (4)

That's Z plus R around a plus F = ZARF

I'm stuck on 34 and 38
How many times on time? (4)
Scoundrel ignoring Command Paper goes in fro excitement(5)

It's hard to get to the end game with this one without all the clues solved.
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oudemia

5th February 2012, 23:27
Thank you both!
I had TERA for 38 across (Time plus ERA) but I'm not 100 percent sure.

This is the hardest one for weeks...
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chips

6th February 2012, 08:11
Oudemia - Tera looks good, but it clashes with my answer to 27 D('Spare steward,about fifty-one'), relieve (reeve/steward+LI/fifty-one).
Can I ask what you had for 15 A? At the moment, I have ?earb, which just doesn't look right!
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mjk

6th February 2012, 09:45
Hi
I make 15across K(king)R (queen) AIT (island)
Has anyone yet discovered if the words we finally fill in on the grid are real words or not?
I'm completely stumped at the moment!
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serpentinewe

6th February 2012, 11:32
I agree with 15a
As to real words - not there yet, but my suspicions are that they are n't as I'm fairly confident of the upper part of the grid and it's changes.
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chips

6th February 2012, 13:58
Thanks for 'krait' - and I agree that we end up with non-real words.
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