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3. HOP UP ( drug ) subtractive anagram - "help suffocating pet" (minus: "lasting effect"

5. FEET OF CLAY (Muhammad Ali supports )faults of character not apparent at first 

I need to eat more fish I think, but thanks as always Jolan

So frustrating. This really doesn't happen with any other site.

Oh dear, and 'tweer' is in Bradford's!

Thanks all for participating.
Full House for AB, Daniel and Ari. Brilliant!
Thanks, once again, AB for the excellent and full parsing. Pasting in my own would almost be a carbon copy.
Well done everybody else.

Ari. Still cannot understand your 'connection' problem. Have you asked anyone local to try logging on over a period of a few days?

I'm off now for my non-dinner and will peek in much later.

J

Nice ones, Jolan. Best of luck with your regimen.

Hi jolan
Reporting in late as predicted.

When I taught chemistry, the air blast nozzles in a blast furnace were called "tuyeres", though the pronunciation would be the same (it's a French word) - I've not seen this spelling before.

Hi Chris. Yes! It's listed in Chambers under twyer, twyere, tweer, twier, twire or tuyère

Goodnight now. J

P.S. I think I would have got 1 and 5; possibly 4 if I had consulted the dictionary!