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    Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

    Scoreboard at the Oval details Millman's rise to fame (6)

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      Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

      Game with tiny cars (51cc) being driven round, with various extras (10)

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        Chalks off Scalextric battle (without prescription drugs) (8)

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          Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

          _ _ L _ _ _ _ S

          (I've also slightly modified the clue)

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            Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

            Shatter, O hard hombre, like crystalline calcites! (11)

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              Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

              Are you sure you have the letter count right there?

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                Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                Oops. Corrected.

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                  Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                  Unconventional rhombohedra central to an artist travelling around (8)

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                    Old Bohemian community in South of France alien to Anglo-Saxon nation; no good! (11)

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                      Sudetenland's fate was inane tax on combinations (10)

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                        Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                        Working class shun German annexation (9)

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                          Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                          Caught up in Rheinlander Anschluss (6)

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                            Snared, perhaps, then released or discharged (7,3)

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                              Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                              Anyone tried today's Guardian crossword yet? 15dn seems to lend itself to two equally good answers, which I assume escaped the attention of the editor.

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                                Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                I'll have a look later.

                                _ R _ _ _ E _ / _ _ _

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                                  Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                  _ R _ M _ E _ / _ _ T

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                                    Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                    I think I have the solution, but I'm being a bit dense justifying it with the wordplay.

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                                      Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                      Hang on. I see it now. Pun.

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                                        Bully drummed out of the second rank (8)

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                                          Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                          I've had a look at that Guardian clue and the ambiguity is aurprising because I thought the fact that the two candidate answers were anagrams of each other was fairly widely known, like "orchestra" and "carthorse". The joy of arriving at a rare "and-lit" clue seems to have got the better of them. Having said that, I think one of the possible answers is somewhat more likely than the other given the wording of the definition.

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                                            Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                            Andy C wrote:
                                            I've had a look at that Guardian clue and the ambiguity is aurprising because I thought the fact that the two candidate answers were anagrams of each other was fairly widely known, like "orchestra" and "carthorse". The joy of arriving at a rare "and-lit" clue seems to have got the better of them. Having said that, I think one of the possible answers is somewhat more likely than the other given the wording of the definition.
                                            Given only one of them starts with a "G", I'd say that tells you it's unambiguous.

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                                              Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                              re the guardian clue, i think i have the answer but i can't for the life of me work out what this alternative answer might be

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                                                The one that starts with G is the one that I thought fitted the clue less well.

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                                                  Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                                  Oh, and

                                                  _ _ O _ _ _ _ _

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                                                    Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                                    Browbeat Trojan prince (6)

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