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Fun clues, podium is 20A, 31A and 32A all very neat. Quite a few so close but needed a tweak or two. Do check out mycrossword.co.uk - loads of us from the CS stream today are there already, and you'll get plenty of useful feedback. Happy to test solve any future ones if you're interested.

1ACCWC 532 – ENTHUSIASM – OPEN for CLUES This week’s contest is hosted by Satyen Nabar who won   1ACCWC 531 – TITULAR maintaining his #1 Spot in the hotly contested 2025 1ACCWC leader board For 1ACCWC 532, he’s chosen &#…

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They're all nouns so only with a preposition for me please

#LongLiveXimenes

Yeah pretty much what I meant to say. perhaps I should have said what I mean instead.

The way they move everything to a different aisle each time I go there does imply disorganisation nicely!

Yes that's a reasonable (and probably the only sensible) way to begin a (written) word but then it's you or the solver that's beginning not the word itself.

I disagree on the reflexive usage. The event doesn't begin itself it begins intransitively. Any implied reflexive use must have a direct object and must therefore be transitive. Begin can of course be transitive but I'm struggling to find a reflexive use that's implied and not explicitly stated.

English has no explicit reflexive form but fodder(s) flips/flip does have a reflexive sense and can apply to itself/themselves. Does that apply to begins/begin? I can't see how that works. How fodder(s) begin(s) is a much clearer instruction. No problem with the plural verb forms for plural fodder.

Maybe you'd prefer how X Y and Z begin for a clearer instruction?

Prize crossword No 28,769 Prize crossword No 28,769

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Lol yeah I chickened out of several stretchy (as in shite) defs and went with an extended def which if I'm honest doesn't really work. Much like most &lit attempts

1ACCWC 531 – TITULAR – OPEN for CLUES This week’s contest is hosted by Kalyan Bandyopadhyay who won   1ACCWC 530 – IMPROPER – his first time win earning him a spot in the hotly contested 2025 1ACCWC leader board For 1…

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Looking forward to some good clues this week..

Punwise I'm torn here. Do I go with the old chestnut;

Storm in a D cup.

or

The customer is alt(ways) right.

🤣

Took your advice. My entry is 'kinda' solvable-ish!

I usually go with this from the Times years ago now.

Pineapple rings in syrup (9)

Nicely demonstrates a synonym and creative use of plain text, an insertion, a clear definition and a bloody marvellous surface. Possibly the best clue ever written IMO.

How long for a comment just saying "LIKE" ?

Azed No. 2,769 | The Observer Competition open to UK residents aged 18+ only. Max one entry per person. Closing date is Saturday one week after publication for online entries, postal ...

It was very approachable this week even easy (at least for Azed that is!) so might be the week to try it.

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Azed.

Anyone else properly struggling to write a clue for flowery proliferation that's even half way intelligible let alone solvable?

Are you in/near a town whose name ends in -combe?

Lynton cliff railway

Is there a water powered funicular railway near you?

21 seconds late to ask that so can you see the English Channel?

Are you in Devon?

Tried that group with cleave instead of commerce at first thinking of man and wife in the bible. Which was a bit daft with hindsight.

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