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panagram

12th August 2017, 23:44
Impossible this week ... 10a Setbacks cancelling soldiers poetry (6). 26a Heading off for riot in every part of Scotland (6). Thanks for any help




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ginge

12th August 2017, 23:55
10a (re)verses
26th argyll, (o)rgy in all
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mamya

12th August 2017, 23:56
26 Argyll

(O)rgy in All
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martianalien

13th August 2017, 10:04
Also struggling to see several wordplays.
1ac Offer in the main backed hacks(6) Presumably BID in SEA reversed = ABIDES, but why "hacks"?
25ac Church covering end of river channel (6) TRENCH = channel, but ...
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chrise

13th August 2017, 10:07
Slang use of "hack it" is "put up with it" or ABIDE
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chrise

13th August 2017, 10:08
Have you given the full clue for the other one? I've no idea where the TEN would come from in the clue as written.
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jazzgirl

13th August 2017, 10:15
river Tren(t) ch(urch) ?
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chrise

13th August 2017, 10:27
Ingenious, jazzy, but I don't see how the "covering" and "end of river" leads to that construction!
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jazzgirl

13th August 2017, 10:29
I am not sure, but I thought church covers (blots out) the end of trent ? Will have to wait for the correct parsing to appear later
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chrise

13th August 2017, 10:30
Mmm - good thinking. I've never seen a clue constructed like that before!
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