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    Some latex- ash old embarkation on the cards (5,4,2)

    The wrongness of AH's last was beyond Hobbesian or Araucarian
    Last edited by Duncan Gardner; 30-05-2020, 14:58.

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      Are you comparing me (tangentially) to Araucaria? I'll take that. I loved Araucaria. My favourite setter.

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        As long as I didn't accuse you of liking the Cure. Hobbes sulked when I suggested that was the only thing all regulars on here had in common.

        As we've mentioned here from time to time, Araucaria and followers have been chided by the rival Ximeneans for sometimes stressing an elegant surface reading over hard and fast rules. But it's an entertainment, not the Classical Greats Tripos

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          I do like The Cure, mind.


          Two men are lavish after a good hand in Texas Hold-em (5,5)

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            Royal Flush? (A guess, a conclusion, a Himalayan retreat) (5)

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              Students of early development playfully letting poor Lhasa Apso gather ball (21)

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                  (Hope it's ok if I have a go at this. It's my first post, let me know if it's not up to scratch ..)

                  Favourite (royal?) band of paleoanthropologists perhaps (6,2,3,5,3)

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                    Welcome Granthamian

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                      Queens of the Stone Age recent album 'No more heroes' (8)

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                        Welcome Granthamian!

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                          Thank you for the welcome!

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                            And a very warm welcome to our newest Kestevian.

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                              . . L . . . . S

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                                These villains presumably always finish what they've started (11)

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                                  Cryptically indicated empty, grey gasworks where Masterminds gather (8)

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                                    Let me add my welcome to Granthamian. It was no mean feat to cut your teeth on this thread with a smooth follow-up to my hospital pass.

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                                        Thanks Guy. Wow, Kesteven, that's not a name I've heard in a long while!
                                        And thanks Irony - I knew your answer had to be about anthropology so that got me most of the way. At first I was trying to look for other word endings using the letters left over, until the penny dropped. I have to say you've got me with this latest clue though - I can't see it (yet!)
                                        Last edited by Granthamian; 03-06-2020, 10:28. Reason: Wrong name!

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                                          When I was a wean and being brought up in North Hykeham our exercise books were imprinted with "Parts of Kesteven Education Committee"
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                                          I never did find out where the other parts of Kesteven were, or what they printed on their exercise books.


                                          (and upon Baroness Thatcher's ennoblement I found out I'd been pronouncing it incorrectly [along with all my neighbours] despite living there)

                                          Last edited by Guy Profumo; 03-06-2020, 11:12.

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                                            How do you pronounce it then?

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                                              Kesteven

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                                                You're right, that is weird. I'd always pronounced it Kesteven

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                                                  Every six months or so I pop into this thread in the hope it will have become less opaque.

                                                  I take it I picked a bad time...

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                                                    What a shame, pebble; any other day and it would have been pellucid.

                                                    Cryptically indicated empty, grey gasworks where Masterminds gather (8)

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