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Machine to steal old books with drugs enclosed, // Back east to tour, and famous question posed? (2,2,2,3,2,2)
BOT+TO ROB+OT - Machine, to steal, old books [OT = Old Testament]
BOTTORO(E)BOT - with drugs [E. = Ecstasy] enclosed
(TOBEOROTTOB)<+E - Back [reversal] + E(ast)
TOBEOR(N)OTTOBE - to tour [contains] [and = 'N]
def - famous question posed?
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| Clue ID | Clue | Explanation (hover) | Submitted By | Likes |
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| 9644 | Machine to steal old books with drugs enclosed, // Back east to tour, and famous question posed? (2,2,2,3,2,2) | BOT+TO ROB+OT - Machine, to steal, old books [OT = Old Testament] BOTTORO(E)BOT - with drugs [E. = Ecstasy] enclosed (TOBEOROTTOB)<+E - Back [reversal] + E(ast) TOBEOR(N)OTTOBE - to tour [contains] [and = 'N] def - famous question posed? |
rpl | 3 |
| 9640 | A trite proposal’s endless wish with time // Though brief, short Virgin sung last pair in rhyme. (4,4,5,2) | A trite proposal = WIL(l)+T. + THOUgh (brief, short) + MARRY (homophone Mary) + (last pair in) rhyME | rpl | 1 |
| 9652 | My foot perhaps for ears the source of Greek // Beginning only words a tree could speak. (8, 3 wds.) | wp: I AM (IAMB homophone / "my foot, perhaps, for ears") + ("the source of") G_ + ROOT ("beginning" syn.) def: only words a tree could speak (i.e. the only words in Groot's vocab) |
rpl | 1 |