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[Misc] Help with a cryptic clue please



Couldn't Be Hyypia

Couldn't Be Hyypia

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Nov 12, 2006
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A company cryptic quiz has been circulated and I can't answer a couple of the clues. I'll bet NSC can help. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.

These are the two I am stuck on:

Compressed inside a seed enclosure (2, 1, 8)

Authority to carry out a nice dinner for a couple of guys (7)

I'll post all the questions on the next post in case you like this kind of thing. Thanks for your help.
 




Couldn't Be Hyypia

Couldn't Be Hyypia

We've come a long long way together
NSC Patron
Nov 12, 2006
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Near Dorchester, Dorset
Here are all 12 questions:

Commonest name for a forger (5)

Honk your horn at the help when it’s time for a musical get-together (10)

Follow your leader to China, say, for baking essential (5)

‘Born to me’ reinterpreted for a musical instrument (8)

Go in to return key (5)

Antiquity found where lice reside (5)

Island’s home to top Royal Institute (5)

Compressed inside a seed enclosure (2, 1, 8)

Copy that could take ages to fill out (4-4)

Authority to carry out a nice dinner for a couple of guys (7)

The twisted Madame E made me eat green beans (7)

In addition, no beginning to next Sun God (5)

The only additional clue is that each answer starts with the last letter of the answer before.
 




maresfield seagull

maresfield seagull

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May 23, 2006
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Couldn't Be Hyypia said:
Here are all 12 questions:

Commonest name for a forger (5)

Honk your horn at the help when it’s time for a musical get-together (10)

Follow your leader to China, say, for baking essential (5)

‘Born to me’ reinterpreted for a musical instrument (8)

Go in to return key (5)

Antiquity found where lice reside (5)

Island’s home to top Royal Institute (5)

Compressed inside a seed enclosure (2, 1, 8)

Copy that could take ages to fill out (4-4)

Authority to carry out a nice dinner for a couple of guys (7)

The twisted Madame E made me eat green beans (7)

In addition, no beginning to next Sun God (5)

The only additional clue is that each answer starts with the last letter of the answer before.
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11 Endame
6. Enter
 








SUA Seagull

SUA Seagull

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Jul 23, 2016
408
Stratford-upon-Avon
Follow your leader to China, say, for baking essential (5) YEAST

‘Born to me’ reinterpreted for a musical instrument (8) TROMBONE

Go in to return key (5) ENTER

Antiquity found where lice reside (5) RELIC

Island’s home to top Royal Institute (5) CAPRI

The twisted Madame E made me eat green beans (7) EDAMAME
 






AK74

AK74

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Jan 19, 2010
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In addition, no beginning to next Sun God (5) - EXTRA
 








Questions

Questions

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Oct 18, 2006
24,877
Worthing
Now, what is it that has four pairs of pants, lives in Philadelphia, and it never rains but it pours?
 










Brightonfan1983

Brightonfan1983

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Jul 5, 2003
4,807
UK
Papak said:
I'm in awe of folk who can get cryptic crossword clues, my brain is simply not wired that way.
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Oh man, me neither. There's a splendid episode of Inside No. 9 on the iPlayer that uses cryptic crossword puzzles as the plot device, but I had to keep pressing pause to get my brain to catch up!
 




spongy

spongy

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Aug 7, 2011
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Burgess Hill
Papak said:
I'm in awe of folk who can get cryptic crossword clues, my brain is simply not wired that way.
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Me too! I can do some crosswords.

I think it's just because I don't have the patience for it.

Apparently there's rules to cryptic clues in crosswords bit I've never even bothered to find out what they are...
 








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