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    Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

    Senior administrator missing a friend with equanimity (6)

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      Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

      _ O _ _ _ _

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        Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

        Everybody stuck? Or having a bout of not-arsed-ness?

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          Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

          Well I'm stuck, personally speaking. I've tried to make a couple of answers fit, without success.

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            Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

            OK, I'll try to give it a nudge.

            The first bit is rather corporate.

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              Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

              Very stuck

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                Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                Senior administrator | missing a friend | with equanimity

                is the way it parses.

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                  Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                  Parsing it was about the only bit I managed. Solving it on the other hand...

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                    Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                    Try reading the middle bit as "missing-a friend".

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                      Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                      Gottit.

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                        Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                        Fuel made from hay, but coolly (5,7)

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                          Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                          I considered it but I dismissed it. Is it just that Olly is someone you'd expect to be with a friend or is there more to it?

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                            Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                            No, it's COO followed by ALLY without the "A".

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                              Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                              I tried "calmly" and "coolly" - I couldn't get beyond Olly.

                              is a COO a senior administrator?

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                                Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                See my link above. I don't think its an uncommon term although you'd need a little knowledge of corporate culture to be familiar with it. I think it's more prevalent in the US than it is here.

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                                  Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                  Is an ally necessarily a friend?

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                                    Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                    Wyatt, I shrink from suggesting it because making such slips is so out of character for you, but is there an error on the composition of your anagram? Too many Ys, too few Ls?

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                                      Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                      Oops, yes, sorry. That should of course have read

                                      Fuel, made from halibut, coolly I burnt (5,7)

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                                        Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                        Memoir sis wrote about quality of butyl alcohol (9)

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                                          Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                          Is an ally necessarily a friend?
                                          I don't think it has to be "necessarily" so. In a case such as this I think the definitition ("friend" here) just has to be a possible definition for the word that the solver has to find, not a complete or totally exact one.

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                                            Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                            Indeed. "Bird" would be a perfectly acceptable way of defining "eagle", but a bird, obviously, isn't necessarily an eagle.

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                                              Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                              (r,n)-isomerism is not problematic for people like Andy C (6,3)

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                                                Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                                Rum isomerism contains Eastern brew (4)

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                                                  Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                                  Miso sorry.

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                                                    Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                                    Indeed. "Bird" would be a perfectly acceptable way of defining "eagle", but a bird, obviously, isn't necessarily an eagle
                                                    I asked if an ally (solution) was necessarily a friend (definition).

                                                    I do take Andy's point, but I think the synonimity between 'ally' and 'friend' is a bit stretched.

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