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orson

17th July 2014, 13:52
I've found this one very difficult as I haven't been able to solve half the clues.

How about 1a?

Alcohol, money and food given to young workers (8).

(The wordplay leads to an extra letter.)
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son1ofrover1

17th July 2014, 14:38
The extra letter - which is in a word for a common type of alcohol - is 'r'
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orson

17th July 2014, 18:05
Thanks, son1, but I'm completely in the dark. I've been toying with bee(r), thinking about ants, bees and apprentices and what they eat. The money bit could be any coin or note (or abbreviation) from any country in the history of the world or indeed some sort of bread.

Anyone else out there tried this? I think it's much harder than this week's Listener or Inquisitor. Here's another clue:

In the end, appropriate facet of complicated Brechtian theory (7).
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kilgore trout

17th July 2014, 18:35
a-effect, (e+facet of, anag with o extra)

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kilgore trout

17th July 2014, 18:45
bee(r) bread - 1a
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orson

17th July 2014, 20:05
Thanks, kilgore. That's helped me make more progress. One should remember that hyphenated answers are not indicated. A lot of obscure words in this one.
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cloverjo

23rd July 2014, 15:01
Stuck on the left hand side of this. Can anyone help me get going again, please?

21d. Priest gets one Italian hall set up for group wedding (7)

Wordplay provides an extra A that is not entered. Thank you.
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orson

23rd July 2014, 15:10
Punalua.

EVs are getting so hard these days I'm thinking of giving up on them.
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cloverjo

23rd July 2014, 15:10
Forgot to say: I have an A at the end. The previous letter could be S or U
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cloverjo

23rd July 2014, 15:11
Thanks orson. They are getting tough. Harder than the Listener sometimes.
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