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Was Wendy thinking of Bluebottle's DEADEDx when offering SLAINEDx in round 4?

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First numbers alternative:(9+5+1-4)x8x7

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ASSORT in round 4

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RUDDLES as an alternative to DODDLES
Alternative third numbers: 25x75/3-100/50

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It does seem to me that while Countdown's been off the air, there's been a lot more bitching, sniping and general unpleasantness on the forum than hitherto. :o Is it withdrawal symptoms - or have I just been reading threads that I've not bothered with when there's been plenty of relevant stuff avai...

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It does seem to me that while Countdown's been off the air, there's been a lot more bitching, sniping and general unpleasantness on the forum than hitherto. :o Is it withdrawal symptoms - or have I just been reading threads that I've not bothered with when there's been plenty of relevant stuff avail...

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Dunno who it is, but he does a helluva lot of radio ads

No it's not Martin Jarvis

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I'm glad to say I've never had to listen to anything by Britney or similar, as there are no kids here.
I can stay with R3 - or Classic fm as tonight the former is infested with opera.

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I came across this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_mark recently, and it occurred to me that it might be worth adding to the array of smilies available to reduce misunderstandings. I am aware that there are people around who'll be insulted by the suggestion that it's not sufficiently obvious that...

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All small way for first numbers: (1+10)x3x2x6 = 396

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As mentioned in another thread I'd like to go for a P.

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From the Scrabble group: The 'International A' team consisting entirely of Brits has won the Causeway Premier division. Huge congratulations to Mark Nyman, Craig Beevers, Harshan Lamabadusuriya, Lewis Mackay and Phil Robertshaw on collectively defeating 9 remarkably strong teams from around the worl...

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I usually read this forum! Is that sad? No. Newspapers normally are very biased and follow the viewpoint of whoever is in charge, whereas on here you get a wide variety of different opinions. Also, if you can't get on here at work, breakfast time is as good a time as any. Similarly for me, except I...

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BTW, the best known sorts of SOLANUM are potato, tomato and aubergine - as you said, a mouthful.

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Again in London, the change time between St Pancras Domestic and St Pancras International is 10 minutes. They're in the same building! It takes 1 minute (if you know where you're going). On the other hand you're likely to need the full 10 minutes from the tube station, as there's a huge shopping ma...

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R9: ANTERIOR

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Here are some links: To play through some top WSC games, move by move:- http://www.wscgames.com/games///2009/ For England/Scotland/Wales/N.I./Eire players, to see their progress click on each player's name at:- http://live.wscgames.com/2009/team/eng.html http://live.wscgames.com/2009/team/sco.html h...

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Charlie Reams wrote:
Alec Rivers wrote: Yes, because they are illogical. 'Separate' is from L. se- + parare and 'business' is simply busy + -ness.
It's also illogical that a word which is pronounced "bizness" is spelt like "busyness", so you can't win.

you could say "bees' knees"

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Another simple last numbers: (10+5)x(8+3+2)=195

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We do seem to be nation that likes to keep that last one a secret - just the sign, white circle/black slash through The reason for this is that the sign was designed before there was any national speed limit, so it simply needed to show the end of the restriction. As far as I recall, the national l...

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Alt 2nd numbers: (3x25+2x7)x(4+5)=801

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ESTAMINET in round 4
Round 5 another alternative (9-2)x5x5

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Did French & Latin at school (latter required for Cambridge entrance) - not very good now, but was still able to translate French technical manuals at work.
Know some German, having worked in Stuttgart for a few weeks, also had some holidays, though not really up to conversational standard.

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Why do programmers always mix up Halloween and Christmas? Thanksgiving could also be included :!: :geek: My languages started with Pegasus Assembler - relied on others for the Mk I*, so never learnt its radix-32 language :? Then came Honeywell (forget what they called the language) followed by IBM ...

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Have a look at this page on the Tab Mix Plus forum, it seems to be what you are experiencing: http://tmp.garyr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=37994 So are you having trouble with the installation of any other add ons? Sounds like it might be some odd corruption of the Firefox profile system. Check this ...

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I've just tried to install Tab Mix Plus, but get an unexpected installation error - is it being blocked by one of my antivirus programs? (I have McAfee & Spyware Doctor).
The error message refers to something called the error console log - where do I find this?

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second numbers: (25+1)x(10+5-10/5)=338

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Derek Hazell wrote:For anyone who's always wondered why people say "PIN number" when the "N" already stands for number, just ask David Arthur Griffiths Griffiths.

Probably because they use an ATM machine

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INTEGRAND

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My solution was 50/10=5;75/5=15;8+3=11;11x15=165 all within 30 sec - presumably James rearranged to achieve his big number

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Kirk Bevins wrote:
Peter Mabey wrote:Also UNGROUPED, round 4
Two Us and you've lost an L so it's not in I'm afraid.

oops - wrote down wrong letter

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Also UNGROUPED, round 4

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R6
FACTIVE

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I protect myself from this sort of thing by making sure the sound's off before opening it

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...when I was growing up, I wasn't aware that there was a ranking list out there ... I remember that at primary school, although I didn't know all their meanings, I did notice that some words were worse than others, from the reaction of adults when I used them. I even made up a table on the lines o...

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Is this a first ? When Steve declared BARON for 5, the subtitler beat him with BARREN for 6

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Scrabble does accept the alternative spellings CHAPRASSI or CHUPRASSY.

By the way, when discussing POLLEN,Susie said she thought "the bee's knees" was an arbitrary invention, but surely it's just a jokey mispronunciation of "the business"?

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PELAGE to beat DC

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At last, a country round where the Central African Republic isn't a winner

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In the old days Richard Whiteley would introduce the conundrum by describing it as a 9-letter word all jumbled up (or something similar), so it was quite clear that the answer would be different from the string of letters displayed.

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Deadly serious this one. How do coiled cords manage to fuck themselves up, and is there any way to return them to normal? Every time I stick my headphones on it's pissing me off. I think a telephone cord gets twisted because you pick it up with your right hand, and then transfer to the left to have...

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RR: Rachel Riley, who is looking as radiant and gorgeous as ever in another eye-popping yet reasonably priced dress. Not only that but she is the kindest, most caring sweetheart I have ever met. She has a warmth that envelopes you whole and makes the world a better place. I just want to hold her ti...

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I tried SMOOTHblue for a while, and was initially impressed by its superficially cool appearance. However the lack of legibility makes it useless for regular viewing: I could only read the poster of a message by highlighting the name, whilst single word hyperlinks are hard to spot. So for me, prosil...

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With the football season well under way, there doesn't seem to have any surge of members recording how dull that sport really isso I think it's time to comment on the results. I suspect Horse racing got its high position because although it's more interesting to watch than the other leaders. it is t...

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If I'm at home at 3.25pm (which increasingly these days I am ) I'll generally watch it 'live'. But I've also watched on 4+1, 4oD and VCR (though hardly ever the latter any more as 4oD is more convenient). Similar for me, except that I don't have a VCR that does digital. Am usually out a couple of a...

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Hadn't tried SMOOTHblue before - looks really cool, but prosilver is more legible - I had been using Aerogreen, but only because it was the default originally provided.

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JackHurst wrote:GARROTTE is the spelling in the oed
GAROTTE is an alternate spelling
garrote is an alternate US spelling
garote is not in at all.

I get incredibly confused when any of these words are available in a selection.

... and, to add to the confusion, all are in SOWPODS, (& GARROT too

)

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31: I tried to answer honestly, but with this sort of test it's easy to see what they're up to, so you could bias your answers to come wherever on the spectrum you want.

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Thanks Howard, much appreciated. Your first two questions are answered in the first sentence in the puzzle description - The letters used in the clues represent different positive integers less than 100 I must be missing something, as this doesn't tell me whether zero is included... unless you say ...

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It's really strange that RATIONALS is missing as IRRATIONALS is allowed by ODE.

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First numbers alternative: (75-3-3)x(9-2)

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I've never watched an episode of Coronation Street or Eastenders. Phil, I agree it's easy to avoid football on the TV - however, I did once attend an American football game (with Jack Nicklaus :roll: ). I was staying with a friend, and his boy (& Jack's) were taking part in one between their res...

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There are even self-referential definitions, such as this from Chambers:

haoma /hōˈma or howˈma/ haoma haomas/hoˈma or howˈma/ Etymology: Avestan; see soma2noun a drink prepared from the haoma vine, used in Zoroastrian ritual(with cap) a deity, personification of haoma

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Kieran Child wrote:could anyone copy this in? cheers.

http://crosswordclub.timesonline.co.uk/ ... umber=4049

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I think REFORGE is OK

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Did you do that without cheating? What's cheating? There was nothing in the question that said "without searching through a word list, especially not with a computer". :ugeek: If you're allowed software, the Quinapalus <i>Word Matcher</i> http://www.quinapalus.com/cgi-bin/match gives: ald...

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Rosemary Roberts wrote:
Peter Mabey wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Great ... hedron.png
You're a fan of interpenetration?

My favourite for interpenetration is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Compo ... ahedra.png
I have made a model, but it's now lost.

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INTERMIT

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Not to mention the Southern ocean

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Only a few possible values of O

Not clear from preamble, but I'll initially assume dominoes don't cross bars

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