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| Q 1 | PRESS button by pub door (i.e. press = newspapers, e.g. Daily
Mail) |
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| Q 2 | Ian Robin BEST, Simon Andrew BEST (licensees) |
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| Q 3 | Stag on pub sign (hidden in sexist agenda, i.e. stag night) |
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| Q 4 | PLEASE DO NOT CYCLE ON THE CHURCH GRASS |
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| Q 5 | "Willow Cottage" - house-name (with drooping Ws) |
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| Q 6 | WALKING BOTTOM (i.e. Walking + TT inside Boom) |
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| Q 7 | Running Hook' - house-name |
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| Q 8 | ABSOLUTE SECURITY alarm (anag. LOSE RUSTIC BEAUTY) |
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| Q 9 | Post with yellow and blue arrows (ref. Nick Clegg, David Cameron &
Gordon Brown) |
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| Q 10 | BENTLEY COPSE (ref. Rolls & Bentley motor cars; the Bill =
police) |
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| Q 11 | Scoreboard at tennis court |
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| Q 12 | Black horse & SLOW DOWN sign (ref. Black Beauty by Anna S) |
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| Q 13 | Green START button by gate |
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| Q 14 | Two rusty ornamental birds (secretary birds?) |
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| Q 15 | 10 on telegraph pole (X = 10 as a Roman numeral; current year is
2010) |
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| Q 16 | Two stone owls (by gate at Dicks Hill Farmhouse) (first
letters) |
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| Q 17 | Turkey on weather vane (N,E,W,S, also cold turkey = symptoms after
drug withdrawal) |
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| Q 18 | AJ Charlton, timber merchants by royal appointment (i.e. A + J
Charlton, brother of Sir Bobby) |
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| Q 19 | HOUND HOUSE (i.e. following similar alliteration in the clue) |
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| Q 20 | "J8" upside down on post by trough (ref. Scrabble tile) |
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| Q 21 | IAE label on trough (ref. the five vowels without O,U) |
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| Q 22 | ZFE & "American lock company" on padlock (i.e. FEZ & lock =
hair) |
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| Q 23 | KASP on padlock (i.e. Gary Kasparov & Nigel Short,
chess-players) |
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| Q 24 | QUAKERS' ORCHARD - house-name (anag. HARD SQUARE ROCK & building
work) |
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| Q 25 | CANNOCK GATES on gate (anag. COGNACS TAKEN) |
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| Spare A | "Private" on gate (ref. Private Eye magazine, founded in
1961) |