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onlooker

4th April 2015, 18:09
56ac Money reduced after country's withdrawn credit
I have k???s
and
51d Censured class departs
I have r?t??
Help appreciated as I think I have all the rest.
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sudokulover

4th April 2015, 18:15
51d rate d?
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heathcliff67

4th April 2015, 18:16
56 ac - KUDOS ?
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onlooker

4th April 2015, 18:41
Thanks.
Both replies seem possible.
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mamya

4th April 2015, 18:45
Country withdrawn - UK reversed - KU
Money reduced - DOS(h)
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heathcliff67

4th April 2015, 19:05
Interesting, mamya.

I arrived at KUDOS by taking ESKUDOS and withdrawing ES (for Espana) to leave KUDOS.

Whilst it is arguable that this fits the clue, your parsing looks better and I suspect is more accurate.
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mamya

4th April 2015, 19:24
Oh?

I have only ever seen that currency spelled - Escudos.


I seem to be parsing quite differently from others today.
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brendan

4th April 2015, 22:12
This was an absolute ordeal! Help appreciated parsing these...

13a. Objecting to least sound made by bell? (7) - MINDING (Objecting)

The best I can come up with is is MIN(imum) DING, but there's no instruction to abbreviate 'Minimum', so is there something else?

2d. Changing guards at division? It's sure to cause comment (12,5) - CONVERSATION PIECE (Sure to cause comment)

It looks like 'Changing' = CONVERSION - 'guarding' AT, but that leaves 'Division' for PIECE, which I don't get.

4d. Newspaper gossip raised confusion (6) - RAGBAG (Confusion?)

Is it RAG + GAB (Raised), or is there more to it?

25d. Fastener's first evidently reduced by half to make another (5) - LATCH (Fastener)
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mamya

4th April 2015, 22:34
213 Yes

Min and Max are common terms for least/most.

2 Changing - Conversion
Guards at (around at) - Conversation

A piece of a greater whole is a 'division.

4 Yes, as you parse it.

25 Latch

L instead of C (Catch, another fastner)

L=50, C=100
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elle

4th April 2015, 22:37
Hi, Brendan!
2d; Chambers gives 'division' as a' portion or section'
(piece)
13a: 'Min' is an accepted abbreviation for minimum - I wasn't worried about that when I put in my answer! maybe I should have been, I don't know.....
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