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muntjac ?

....just found "munt" and "muntu" in Chambers. What was the McEwan connection?

Fantastic! So you HAD heard of it before! Are they quite common? Meant nothing to me.
On a gastronomic note: what annoys me here is that it's almost impossible to get hold of wild boar to cook yourself: the hinters keep them for themselves. And they stampede regularly across our slope!
Wonder what Rosalind meant: we'll have to quiz her politely later, I think................

There'rs no real connection: he just describes one in the wood on Christmas Common where the couple are having a picnic when an out-of-control hot-air balloon suddenly appears! How on earth did YOU know about that form of erotomania (nowadays better known to us in the form of stalkers possibly)???

They are quite a pest in the south and southeast. All British deer species seem to be getting more common - we regularly see Roe deer on the golf course.

I've got some more easy ones ready. Here's the first.

Get blue; see variable star. (10)

Wikipedia! There's a link from the "Enduring love" page to "de Clerambault's syndrome, which is on the "erotomania" page.

Betelgeuse

Your go, imagcq
You might want to declare an early "open", unless bobs mum has returned with bob!

BETELGUESE (or was it -GEUSE)!
For some reason in CS machine & Bradford's but not in Ch. --- why??????????????

Oh, sh*t! I've done it again! So sorry, imagcq --- I keep on forgetting the rules! Your turn anyway, I'd say. Will look for the sackcloth & ashes.....................