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zinc

11th May 2025, 15:23
30a Bold sort of artist failing to get going after dawn (10).

This one must be 'adventurer' but I'm struggling to parse the back end. I can see that 'dawn' will be 'advent' and the artist may be Turner but I'm failing to get 'failing to get'! (Or it may be failing to get going.). How does that represent the loss of an 'n'? Or maybe I'm way off target.
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chrise

11th May 2025, 15:25
Might the artist be (D)urer?
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malone

11th May 2025, 15:25
Advent and Durer (artist), with the D dropped/failing to get going?
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zinc

11th May 2025, 15:37
Ah yes. Thanks Chrise and Malone. It would have helped if I hadn't tried using the t from advent again in my parsing. Oops.
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strangelybrown

16th May 2025, 14:18
13a Stop antagonistic French inspector getting decapitated (5)
Avert? Who’s the French inspector?
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jono

16th May 2025, 14:22
Javert… Les Mis
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strangelybrown

16th May 2025, 15:34
Thank you
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themadwomanintheattic

17th May 2025, 16:26
SB, that was the last one I got. The dreadful combination of a proper noun and a deletion, served with a side order of a dodgy definition. I've always understood AVERT to mean AVOID rather than STOP.
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malone

17th May 2025, 16:54
Chambers gives one definition of 'avert' as ' (to) prevent', so it seems reasonably OK to me.
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