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bear of lb

7th May 2023, 11:23
I crawled through this slowly & am now stuck on 1 for which I can find no sensible answer.

5D - Not keen about penning good Latin American music (9)
R?G?A?T?N

I hope there's someone out there whose knowledge of Latin American music is greater than mine.
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jono

7th May 2023, 11:28
A reversal of not eager about g. It’s in Chambers as Puerto Rican dance music.
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bear of lb

7th May 2023, 11:48
Jono

Thanks for this. I'd not have got this in a month of clichés!

Most kind of you.
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bigbertha

7th May 2023, 16:49
47 Down. Sound made by warbler, say, for a song on the radio. Can’t decide between cheap and cheep.
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jazzgirl

7th May 2023, 16:56
47 cheep - sound made by warbler

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bigbertha

7th May 2023, 17:03
Thanks. But it could also be cheap (going for a song). Still not sure.
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jazzgirl

7th May 2023, 17:07
The second half of the clue is the wordplay. I have just checked a couple of sites and 'cheep' is shown as the answer in both
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bigbertha

7th May 2023, 17:44
Cheers Jazzgirl. Cheep it is!
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strangelybrown

8th May 2023, 09:14
V pleased with myself, all done though a few I can't parse:

14a It attracts traveller with grand after tax return at first (13)

Electromagnate. Return = elect, traveller with grand = romag, but can't see the tax in the final letters, 'nate'.

38d Being full from day one, a vessel circling round (9)
Satiation.

Not a word I've ever used. 'day one, a' is 'satia' but how do we get 'tion' from 'vessel circling round?

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jono

8th May 2023, 09:24
14. After tax = NET (not nate)
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