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chrise

18th February 2022, 19:40
Yes, lots of potential for "-ish" endings as well as "-y" ones.
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tyke51

18th February 2022, 19:48
refinish

think I stick to wordle!
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malone

19th February 2022, 15:50
These clues may be of interest to some Forum regulars. They're for interest only (ie no answers please) as they're from today's prize puzzles...

Times Cryptic

16 D. Month on island reportedly bamboozles cleaning lady (8)

Times Jumbo Cryptic

51 D. Squat resembling a rubbish tip? (5)
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jono

19th February 2022, 15:57
Aha, thanks for the second one Malone ;-)
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malone

19th February 2022, 16:28
Thanks, Jono - I aim to please!
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tyke51

19th February 2022, 19:48
Last one Jono (or possibly not!)

Tacky ... a bit like a nail
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orson

20th February 2022, 14:29
More feminine forms for your collection.

A woman in a letter to the Sunday Times today insisted she should be known as professor emerita rather than emeritus. So I wondered about the word professor and sure enough there is professoress, though the OED says it is mildly depreciative.

Charles Kingsley once wrote this: The female college, with its professoresses, and hostleresses, and other Utopian monsters.
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jigjag

20th February 2022, 17:49
Orson

That reminds me that I think Malone and Grunger are professoresses emeritae.
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malone

20th February 2022, 18:05
Orson, Jigjag, what an unsightly, ungainly, inelegant word 'professoress' is - I would never be encumbered with such a title. I will have to leave academe and return to other professions - maybe I'll be a char, a daily, a full-time (salaried?) pedant....
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chrise

22nd February 2022, 11:45
Here's one from this week's RT

Shaking like a note? (7)
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