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Thanks Caravaggio.
Game, Set & Match to you then? No arguments!

The English Illustrated Dictionary 2nd Edition (1975)
Pent (adj). Closely confined, shut in or up.

In everyday language you rarely if ever hear the word pent used without the (technically unnecessary) addition of 'up'.

Talking of the redundant use of 'up', why do people insist on saying 'park up' rather than 'park'?

Or 'off of' for 'off'?

Or those TV chefs who now insist on 'frying off' when they used simply to 'fry'.

Sorry -- rant over. Time for my meds.

All that unnecessary rubbish is imported American pollution.
However the thing that really drives me mad is "begs the question". It does NOT mean "raises the question". I wish sloppy broadcasters, politicians and journalists etc would learn what the expression means before spouting it!

spouting it out.

Talking of which, how would you describe that which issues from the maw of Robert Peston the BBC's financial correspondent? "Spouting" seems like a good description although "totally meaningless" would also fit the bill.

Coming back on topic, another variable RT crossword this week. Some quite clever clues and some very poor but mostly mediocre. For example:

12A. Sofa for city runners. - CHESTERFIELD

What is the significance of the "runners" in that clue?

The city is CHESTER. Runners are the FIELD (as in horse racing).

Oh Good, I've been wondering about that!
Mind you, I get distracted by the young lady lying across the bottom of the screen, my mind wanders before I get all the way through "Chesterfied".

Yes, I just did that Google thing that doesn't sound right and found that Chesterfield is only a town with a twisted spire and not a city after all. Thanks terry for putting me right and Bees, just hold on until the thread gets to more than one page, as the young lady only appears on the first one and after that you get mobile phones.

She's gone! Now where was I? Oh yes, I'm stuck on 5D Run animal over ?L?W I have FLOW, but I'm not convinced. Any better ideas?