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    Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

    I think it's okay if the abbreviation is generally accepted. The abbreviation and the full term are, for clueing puposes, synonyms.

    I think you only really need the indicator if the setter is making up the abbreviation - in which case you might use "at first" or "initially" or something. Such an indicator might not be out of place if the addreviation has its own currency, but wouldn't be mandatory. In my view.

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      Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

      Well it clearly wasn't that generally accepted - or not in conjunction with a solution which was also relatively obscure. Otherwise it would have been solved sooner when three of the letters were given.

      Anyway enough of the Bah humbug! Merry Christmas, to Wyatt, Hof, Andy, Bruno and the rest of the Cryptic crew. Rearrange a glossy bedsore venue!

      (3, 5, 2, 5, 3)

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        Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

        The "ACL" part wasn't the stumbling block. I twigged to that early on. It was unfamiliarity with the works of Willie Mays, and not getting out enough to have sampled more Scottish beers that did for me.

        That and havng to go shopping for presents for the tenuously-related, that cut into my precious crossword-solving time diabolically.

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            Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

            Origin of the phrase "God Bless Us, Every One" is an untidy scrotal archaism (1,9,5)

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              Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

              Clerk dances, his creation? "A Christmas Carol" [7,7]

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                Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                Article by unconventional Charles Dickens eschewed cliche and gave us an innuendo-laden Christmas piece (3,8)

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                  Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                  Subjects include a letter from abroad written by Charles Dickens (3,6)

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                    The darkness on December 24th is Moore poetic (3,5,6,9)

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                      Audibly, The Night Before Christmas is yellow and theatrical (3,4,6)

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                        _ _ _ / _ O _ _ / _ O _ _ _ _

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                          _ _ R / _ O _ _ / _ O _ _ _ _

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                                Got it.

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                                  After my clues referring to bitter, sweet.

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                                    Club bringing Sir Noel Coward's spirit, we hear, to the men of Greece (5,8)

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                                      Blyth Spartans drop leftwinger, poet, and trainer initially and add nourishment to boss this league

                                      (9)

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                                        Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                        And apologies for moving away from the seasonal theme- But Blyth Spartans was a tricky one..

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                                          Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                          Blyth Spartans drop leftwinger, poet, and trainer initially and take on nourishment to boss this other North East League

                                          (9)

                                          _ _ _ _ _ _ T _ _

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                                            Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

                                            Blyth Spartans drop leftwinger, poet, and trainer initially and take on nourishment and boss this other North East League

                                            (9)

                                            _ _ _ _ _ _ T _ _

                                            Have rephrased it slightly will be off for a few days and out of internet land


                                            so here is a clue


                                            and another

                                            and one more

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                                              Hanseatic members become enfeebled (9)

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                                                  I feel bad about leaving this hanging, so:

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                                                    Brain not working.

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