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Now that’s off my chest: I actually found this mostly enjoyable and a touch easier than previous from the same setter. I needed help with TITOIST (would never have got there on my own, to be fair) but almost all the rest was a steady, reasonably challenging solve, albeit with some solutions from definition and crossers without really understanding the parsing til I got here. I noticed three Frenchisms which suited this Francophone but may have been a little trop for some…Arcing is a type of electrical discharge that occurs when electrons flow between two conductors, usually metal, in an environment with a gas or vacuum. The conductors can be wires, rods, or other objects that are capable of carrying an electrical current.’) Third downer is, while both are involved in corporal punishment, birch and cane are not really synonymous. eccentricity: in a conic section, the constant ratio of the distance of a point on the curve from the focus to its distance from the directrix (usually represented by e; (geom)’ You are able to comment on most crosswords for the first seven days after publication. There is a warning for users. Do not scroll down if you want to avoid the risk of seeing any of the answers. We will not have comments enabled for the Prize, Everyman, Genius or Azed crosswords as these are competitions. What is the blind and PS version?

GROSS OUT: that is why I underlined just ‘disgust (verb) as definition, leaving ‘show’ as a link word. LOW YEAR)* – the Royal We was Queen Victoria’s way of referring to herself (as in the apocryphal “we are not amused”), or her “one”, as formerly used by the more recent late Queen For all newspaper-published crosswords that appear online from Wednesday 10 February 2010 a PDF version will appear beneath the crossword’s title and alongside the Print version and the Blind & PS version. True, Janis was a different kettle of fish, although her biggest (posthumous) hit was penned by Kris Kristofferson – there’s a nice version by him and Rita Coolidge. I can’t believe I filled in this whole puzzle when I only got 4 and 6 down at the start. The first of those gave me THE in 13a and which with the word count gave me A _ _ _ _ _ (in?) THE _ _ _. which the wordplay helped with, and I inched on from there.We know people are experiencing issues with printing so we have outlined some details here that should help.

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LEA/LEY: Chambers and the OED list three words with these (and other) spellings. The first is the meadow that you mention, and the second is arable land; the quote “The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea” more likely uses the first. Chambers gives different etymology for the two, but in view of the similarity of meaning, I would suspect that confusion is responsible for the convergence on the same group of spellings. The eccentricity of an ellipse is denoted by e. It is the ratio of the distances from the centre of the ellipse to one of the foci and to one of the vertices of the ellipse, i.e., e = c/a where a is the length of semi-major axis and c is the distance from centre to the foci.