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| 1. 11/11 = 1 |
| 1. | Clever but don’t think this would actually be solvable | | 2. | Brilliant idea but 11/11 is Armistice Day, not really just an armistice | | 3. | Ingenious. It's Armistice Day, of course. Nevertheless… | | 4. | A great idea for a clue, but I wonder if it would need quite a logical leap (or a few crossing letters) to solve. 4 points. |
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| 3. "A Farewell to Arms" is a film I care madly about (9) |
| 1. | A cracker. | | 2. | A reference to something from the real world always adds to a clue. |
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| 5. Ceasefire with dispersal of armies including those in charge basically (9) |
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| 6. Cities left destroyed after weapon ceasefire (9) |
| 1. | What's a weapon ceasefire? |
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| 7. Crimea, it's struggling for a truce |
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| 9. End of hostilities between warring sides with a right perfume and diamonds! (9) |
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| 10. Fighting over mice, it's a raptor's first killing |
| 1. | Your definition (a participial phrase) is adverbial, where the answer is a noun. I'm not sure the grinder works either. |
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| 14. I'm almost certain to get second wind and stay in action |
| 1. | Good idea, but the syntax and grammar doesn't work |
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| 16. It's a crime – failing to keep the peace? |
| 1. | Good clue, but the anagram is too common. | | 2. | Does 'to keep' have a function? |
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| 17. It's a crime to arrange for peace |
| 1. | Good clue, but the anagram is too common. | | 2. | I'm not getting how the fodder can arrange itself. |
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| 18. It’s a crime to break peace (9) |
| 1. | Good clue, but the anagram is too common. | | 2. | Best of the 'crime' series |
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| 19. It's a crime to ruin a peace treaty (9) |
| 1. | Good clue, but the anagram is too common. | | 2. | Best of the “it’s a crime” clues | | 3. | An archaic intransitive usage makes this not ideal as an anagrind. |
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| 20. It's a crime to suspend hostilities? |
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| 21. It’s a crime to violate ceasefire (9) |
| 1. | There is no intransitive sense of violate in the dictionaries. |
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| 24. Last of troops climbing over top of trench – I see an end to hostilities (9) |
| 1. | Ingenious. But the clue needs to be across for the 'over' indication as well as down for the reversal. |
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| 25. Leaders of armed resistance meet in secret: truce is called eventually |
| 1. | This feels more like a statement about an armistice, rather than a definition of one. |
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| 26. Legions drained of energy? Time to chill |
| 1. | doesn't give the required meaning, so can't accept this as &lit |
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| 27. Mars etc, I fancy, will accept one? Yes and no |
| 1. | I don't see how 'yes' can mean "see that wordplay you solved? Treat the surface in that as a counterexample so 'no' can stand as definition" |
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| 28. Maybe aim is truce without universal treaty (9) |
| 1. | Armistice ≠ treaty. Fundamentally different. |
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| 30. Military Intelligence overrides soldiers in stopping cold and ending fighting |
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| 31. Most of army is taking no notice of truce |
| 1. | Is it churlish to object to 'of'? Probably. |
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| 32. Outfit that's first to kill offering a truce |
| 1. | 'That's' as 'that has' is ugly. |
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| 33. Peace out! it’s a crime (9) |
| 1. | I don't think this anagrind works before its fodder. |
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| 34. Perhaps it is time to put energy into breaking ones scimitar? |
| 1. | The generous sprinkling of extra words makes it hard to see the anagram. |
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| 38. Sounds as if Romeo hankered after kiss, losing head for some piece (9) |
| 1. | Don't think this is solvable: wp in the def half is outre enough without sharing its indicator with the regular wp. |
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| 39. Start of ceasefire between hostile armies, it maybe this |
| 1. | Unravels in the last 3 words. A case could be made for 'may be' (2 words) as anagrind, or any other conditional construction. | | 2. | "…may be…" |
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| 40. Supply weapons to cities moving towards ceasefire |
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| 41. Surely this secures military redeployment? |
| 1. | A very clever composite anagram. | | 2. | Can't make this work. I think you need yr indication of potential transformation BETWEEN the 2 states; hard if the 2nd contains yr main verb |
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| 42. Team is lacking energy with Rice out fighting suspension |
| 1. | Male solvers love a footie ref (but hate footie refs) | | 2. | Nice definition. | | 3. | NHO, but I see it's topical. Nice clue. |
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| 43. Truce with next-door neighbour after switching sides? It's a blur |
| 1. | Unsolvable: oblique ref to 50 yr old track; invisible 's as containment indicator; loose MIST synonym, padded with unhelpful article. |
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| 44. Weapon Mediterranean ship discovered end of unstable ceasefire |
| 1. | Cryptically ok, but does the surface syntax work? |
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