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bullfrog

8th August 2012, 10:48
Everyone's leaving messages for everyone else, so I thought you might like one too...
Don't know whether you saw it but Araucaria used an indirect anagram in last Saturday's Guardian prize:
25 2-ed formed from German thank you (5)

(2's answer was 'undrape')

This is such a poor clue on so many levels I'm amazed it made it past the editor!
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aristophanes

8th August 2012, 14:51
Sheer barbarism. Do you think it could have been sabotage- some sinister hacker?
How were the Bath buns?
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bullfrog

8th August 2012, 16:04
Re Araucaria -- it must surely signify the approach of the end-times.

Re Bath Buns -- I am, of course, too much of a gentleman...
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ixion

8th August 2012, 16:16
I think you're a bit harsh on the old boy Bullfrog...

He obviously knew it was an indirect anag..and naked does come from the german "nackt"
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