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It would appear that this Rainbow quiz is going the same way as previous ones.
I can't remember how many pages it ran to last time but I felt most answers were given in one form or another - and well before the closing date.

Cup of tea anyone?

When are all you saddos going to stop bitching about each other and occasional site users - get a life! There is a huge amount of intellectual arrogance from some people (I have the answer and am very clever, why should you cheat off me - bog off), followed by extreme petulance (all right then, let's spoil everyone's fun by publishing all the answers). I have used the site - and the other one - for indication of direction on the ones I have run out of inspiration on, about 10 this time. I do the quiz with a couple of others, and we get much more satisfaction from sending in a completed version than one with 98%. I will always send in my cheque regardless, so source of research seems somewhat irrelevant - you'll be trying to ban one-look next.

And in terms of timing, there aren't any prizes for being first (not that that would make a shoestring of difference), so why the sadistic insistence of maddening yourself for ten weeks instead of two?

I would have preferred it if hints on this site (and the other) were all clever and subtle, as a lot of them have been, but that becomes a very subjective judgment.

Oh dear, beginning to sound like the ranters that I despise!

Stuck!
32. This animal could be seen as first-rate (5,4,5)
68. Pass compiler feathers from a senior sibling (4,2,4) Hand?
78. I'll return in small sailing-ship to Land's End to get unpleasant instrument (10)-can only think of thumbscrew????
79. But this is all that's left in the schooner (7)
81. Irritated Ivy harms the rider. That's a bad sign ! (6,5) keep thinking thumbs down..
86. Then rascal trots away to become this highly-ranked folk hero (7,3,5)
87. Understand it, I drag away electric lead and am walking on my toes! (11)
88. Just before fiftyone of them is more comfortable
91. Ceremony openingsnormally include performances that everyone relishes (6)
96. The chaplain always had one-almost to keep his hand in (8)
Any ideas please?

Hi loobylooby. I am stuck on several of those as well but:-
81. find the anagram
86. anagram 1st 3 words and take it from
there
68. Another word for pass (something to another person). Who is the compiler? and another word for feathers. good luck

Gandolf34....very well said. Let's be done with all that horrible stuff now and try to enjoy what's left of the quiz. Unlike a few of these moaners who have solved most of it and then overcome their boredom by complaining about the rest of us, I have still got plenty to solve and will keep plodding on regardless.

Thanks Winnie.Have now worked out 68 and 81.Can now get some sleep !

Any hints on 32,44,53,5978,79,88,or 96.Thanks

88 - Before 50 is 49. Look at that clue

44( an anagram of one word round a word for crew member, then look the name up in wiki
59) look up Pedro