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GregP
GregP
15 Jan
11:46am, 15 Jan 2024
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GregP
Taffeta has come up twice in a fortnight I think. GR?
GlennR
GlennR
15 Jan
1:24pm, 15 Jan 2024
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GlennR
Yes.
GlennR
GlennR
21 Jan
4:48pm, 21 Jan 2024
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GlennR
15d something of a pig today.
um
um
21 Jan
5:34pm, 21 Jan 2024
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I've never heard of that! Adds to my vocabulary. For an hour or two, then no doubd I'll forget it.

Whereas one for here yesterday in the prize cryptic,
24a, What sprinter said he did in the country (4)
LindsD
LindsD
21 Jan
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LindsD
Like that one
GregP
GregP
21 Jan
9:49pm, 21 Jan 2024
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GregP
`AH! Nico would have got it for the same reason I did - it crops up in Monty Python's cheese shop sketch.
GregP
GregP
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1:10pm, 22 Jan 2024
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GregP
Well it was clearly ELEPHANT BIRD. Can't say I'd heard of it mind.
GregP
GregP
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GregP
(a customer walks in the door.)

Customer (John Cleese): Good Morning.

Owner (Michael Palin): Good morning, Sir. Welcome to the National Cheese Emporium!

Customer: Ah thank you my good man.

Owner: What can I do for you, Sir?

C: Well, I was, uh, sitting in the public library on Thurmon Street just now, skimming through 'Rogue Herrys' by Hugh Walpole, and I suddenly came over all peckish.

O: Peckish, sir?

C: Esuriant.

O: Eh?

C: 'Ee I were all 'ungry-like!

O: Ah, hungry!
um
um
22 Jan
1:13pm, 22 Jan 2024
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It's there again today ...
3d State the words of a coward? (4)

A different clue, but the same answer.
Coincidence? Different or the same setter?
GregP
GregP
24 Jan
6:05pm, 24 Jan 2024
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GregP
Sue knew the capital, not me. The pastry clue was poor - the kind of thing I expect in the NYT mini*.

*we quite like the NYT mini. It's aggressively lowbrow yet charming.

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