Running website disrupts ye techno fever (5, 8)

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GregP
GregP
Dec 2023
4:46pm, 11 Dec 2023
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GregP
Today not so much. 3m43s
Dvorak
Dvorak
Dec 2023
6:13pm, 11 Dec 2023
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Dvorak
That seems an undue variability in difficulty level.
GregP
GregP
Dec 2023
7:27pm, 30 Dec 2023
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GregP
ToL concise today (Sat). Well I got it but until I looked homestead up I didn't know that was what it meant.
GlennR
GlennR
Dec 2023
7:55pm, 30 Dec 2023
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GlennR
I got that one but admit to the same problem.
Dvorak
Dvorak
Dec 2023
8:35pm, 30 Dec 2023
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Dvorak
Now I'm curious. I looked it up and in general, it meant exactly what I thought it meant*. So I wonder what you both thought it meant?

*There was an additional definition with a specifically African reference
GregP
GregP
Dec 2023
8:58pm, 30 Dec 2023
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GregP
I thought it was either just a pretentious word for house or possibly referred to some ranch/hacienda type thing? I s'pose.
GregP
GregP
14 Jan
2:16pm, 14 Jan 2024
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GregP
BIBELOT? Really?
GlennR
GlennR
14 Jan
9:21pm, 14 Jan 2024
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GlennR
I know. I got it in the end because it was the only word I could make fit. My Chambers thesaurus gives the clue word if you look up the solution, but it doesn't give the solution if you look up the clue.
GregP
GregP
15 Jan
6:26am, 15 Jan 2024
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GregP
We got it through similar means and a concise oxford
Cerrertonia
Cerrertonia
15 Jan
11:28am, 15 Jan 2024
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Cerrertonia
That's a crosswordese kind of word - the kind where there's not many alternative words that fit the grid for the setter but which don't get much everyday usage- apse or erne, for example.

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Which it's the Fetchland crossword wire.


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