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      Counterfeited Romanian currency in the north-east? Cake brings back memories (9)

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          Madeleine McCann's team never to go down? (7)

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            Ok.

            So Madeleine is a cake, and I assume Lei has been substituted for Leu, but "memory"?

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              Lei is the plural of Leu.

              The "brings back memories" part was just an extra help as the madeleine is basically most famous as the device that gave Proust his rush

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                But that "extra help" didn't help this elder of the thick siblings here!

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                  How odd that that's the clue being questioned. That was one of the few that I've ever got without help on this thread, one of the few that's not stuffed to the rafters with obscure football or music references.

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                    Same here

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                      But like I said, "brings back memories" was all Rigsby's cat to me, and only helped to confuse as I tried to infer meaning from it

                      I'd've been better off without it

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                          Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View Post
                          How odd that that's the clue being questioned. That was one of the few that I've ever got without help on this thread, one of the few that's not stuffed to the rafters with obscure football or music references.
                          I asked Laura K to fact check the most recent series of clues in the chain, as follows:

                          1 Madeleine McCann's team never to go down? (7)

                          2 Counterfeited Romanian currency in the north-east? Cake brings back memories (9)

                          3 Dog - chihuahua Höek - played Lt Green for Argentine Pesos? (8)

                          4 Eat pie, get Rosanne Cash in South America (9.4)

                          5 Suffering acne (rash) son" - sang Seeing's Believing (7,4)

                          6 Genesis- Revelation: proof's in the pudding (7,9)

                          7 Siegen's the start of something biblical by Phil Collins (7)

                          8 Some Bourgeoisie generally found in Nordrhein Westfalen (6)

                          9 They crush the proletarians, confusingly, or 'bugs', e, i, e, i, o! (11)

                          10 Re: Alain Prost "Racing is for the workers" (12)

                          11 German or French toast for F1 champ? (5)

                          12 Fried bread? Salut! (6,5)

                          13 Gone off red brie is in fashion for breakfast (5,5)

                          14 Oafish Johnson's behind beaten in rage (7)

                          15 Coarse angling around a bream, perhaps! (6)

                          16 Bad Company behind (6)

                          17 Freeloading rockers copy Man (3,7)

                          18 Pilot of glider plane out of place attending junket (11)

                          19 Flying skater? (6)

                          20 Fellows Park a supermarket site at last? Looks fishy (5)


                          SBH and UA have a point and the above is a small sample, although Ms Cash and Messrs Genesis, Bad Company, Prost and even Walsall FC on a football fan site might quibble at "obscure" even by comparison with Proust. Pretentious, moi?

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                            Canine tradition said to be found around Everton (9)

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                                Originally posted by Guy Profumo View Post
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                                  Is nobody going to Mann up and take this one on?

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                                    Originally posted by Guy Profumo View Post
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                                      Labour concession in Bassetlaw (7)

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                                        Worksop, Tim? A likely entry, it's for the best (7)

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                                          The Best of Nico - optimal mix (11)

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                                            Pans edited compilation album from three-piece combo (4)

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                                              Eventually! The Jam's Snap to go to Finnish new town (5)

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                                                Cutlery? In Espoo? Never! (5)

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                                                  Broken hubcap in Wetherspoons establishment (3, 5)

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                                                    Yeoman warder of the pub chain (9)

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