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    Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

    Martian canal drama created by C.S. Lewis? [10]

    bollocks!

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      Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

      C S Lewis hides stationery (7)

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        Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

        Blimey half a frigging page late.

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          Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

          ad hoc wrote:
          Blimey half a frigging page late.
          Join the club. I was incredibly self-satisfied and smug about the internal cleverness of my clue.

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            Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

            Yes. I think it's fairly common to do that.
            Very common indeed. There can't be many crosswords that don't feature that at least once or twice.

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              Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

              The Screwtape Letters in the bog? (4)

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                Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                Guy Potger wrote:
                Martian canal drama created by C.S. Lewis? [10]

                bollocks!
                Ah, that's a pity, because we've already had Perelandra.

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                  Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                  Why on Earth... wrote:
                  Guy Potger wrote:
                  Martian canal drama created by C.S. Lewis? [10]

                  bollocks!
                  Ah, that's a pity, because we've already had Perelandra.
                  Yes. I was going with that one, and then I remembered I'd seen it here before.

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                    Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                    "Source of peat", as Buffy might say? (5)

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                      Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                      _ S _ _ _

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                        Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                        Does this clue need any knowledge whatsoever of Buffy?

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                          Well, I can't claim it needs none whatsoever, but you don't actually have to have watched any episodes or anything.

                          You need to know more about peat, really.

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                            Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                            @rse. Scrub that it's crap.

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                              Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                              Bend down further on Islay? [7]

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                                Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                Opening of nice Bowmore whisky might bring about change in the workplace (3,5)

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                                  Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                  Don't know this one, but perhaps someone could help with an answer from a Guardian Xword a while back. I bought a paper sometime last week, and slowly over the course of the week have been getting down the cryptic, until I'm left with one clue only. Now I'm 99% sure I have the answer, but I really don;t know why it''s the answer:

                                  Accept English recipe (4) T _ K _

                                  Now, it has to be take (I can't see it being tyke or toke), but why?

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                                    Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                    Yeah, it is "take" (I checked the next day) but like you I can't see why.

                                    It's also from the Guardian that I nicked the rather distinctive use of "whisky" above, by the way. I figure if they can do it, it's kosher...

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                                      Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                      _ _ W / _ _ _ O _

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                                        New broom analysing el futbol (5)

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                                          Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                          Hippocrates revised De Morbo Sacro omitted the Godhead and revealed result here.

                                          (10)

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                                            Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                            Oh wait, ad hoc: in Latin, "recipe" is the imperative of recipio, I think, and therefore means "Take!" That must be it.

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                                              Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                              Beached on nef's.

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                                                _ _ O _ _ _ _ _ R_

                                                Often seen at Spanish football

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                                                  Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                                  Ah! Got it. But how does Hippocrates come into the cluing? I know he's the author.

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                                                    Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                                    Got to go now; play through, someone.

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