Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Triumphal vespers contain equal portions (6)

(Can you tell me why it's vespers by the way. I got it from the updated clue, but I can't get anything that comes before "a prayer" in your clue)

[ad hoc]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

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Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

ad hoc wrote:

Triumphal vespers contain equal portions (6)

(Can you tell me why it's vespers by the way. I got it from the updated clue, but I can't get anything that comes before "a prayer" in your clue)

There was a rebellion in Palermo against the Normans that became known as "The Sicilian Vespers".

[Wyatt Earp]

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Tight situation as Coe halves allocation (1,5,5)

[Nefertiti2]

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Knitter in a close shave manipulated own needle.

(9)

[Nefertiti2]

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_ _ _ D _ _ _ N _

[Andy C]

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Wendolene's yarn-spinner, our jumper's dashing (7)

[Wyatt Earp]

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Case for capitalising, there, Nef?

[Nefertiti2]

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Probably- but I decided it was a lower case - I couldn't come up with a good enough clue.

[Wyatt Earp]

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Really nice clue other than that, mind, though well out of my sphere of wossname.

[Andy C]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Wendolene's yarn-spinner, our jumper's dashing (7)

_ _ _ K _ _ _

[Nefertiti2]

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Apostrophes Jinx confused gardener, Palace fan, who made Halifax parkour.

(3, 6,6)

[Nefertiti2]

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Apostrophes Jinx confused gardener, Crystal Palace fan, who made Halifax parkour(s).

(3, 6,6)

_ _ _

_ _ _ _ P _

_ _ _ T _ _

[Nefertiti2]

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Apostrophes Jinx confused gardener, Crystal Palace fan, who made Halifax parkour(s).

(3, 6,6)

_ _ R

_ _ S _ P _

_ _ _ T _ N

[Andy C]

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Foreparts of Sir Joseph Paxton return in full-length nightwear (7)

[Hofzinser]

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It’s the cat’s pyjamas to take a horse (and to sit on it?) (8)

[Wyatt Earp]

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I can't work out Nef's clue--please can I request a breakdown?

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

(I get the anagram bit, and the reference to Crystal Palace, but not the bits about "fan" and "parkour".)

[Nefertiti2]

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Not my best probably

Paxton designed the People's Park in Halifax - therefore Park our(s)

Crystal Palace Fan- No more than that Paxton was a fan of the Crystal Palace in that designed the original and built several more in various places. He also sold plans for greenhouses using the same construction techniques.

[Hofzinser]

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It’s the cat’s pyjamas to take a horse (and to sit on it?) (8)

_ _ _ T _ _ _ E

[Andy C]

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Not normally his calmest bestride the end of a Cornish causeway (2,8,5)

[Wyatt Earp]

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St Michael's: mount originally for seekers of elemental secrets (10)

[Nefertiti2]

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Oxford alchemist's links course in Kent by leaving town, initially.

(5, 8)

[Wyatt Earp]

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I've got something that fits the first half of the clue, but I can't see the link with the second half, which I think must be the definition bit.

[Wyatt Earp]

Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

Oh wait: I can sort of see a link now, which makes me think it must be right, but it would make both halves of the clue wordplay.