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E: 01/01 £250

Solve the crossword

Entries to this Competition Send your entries to Crossword, Private Eye, 6 Carlisle Street, London W1D 3BN
or via email to

[EMAIL="crossword@private-eye.co.uk"]crossword@private-eye.co.uk[/EMAIL]
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  • Andy2342
    Andy2342 Posts: 146 Forumite
    might have been more helpful if you'd put the answers in your post
    Wins: pink kids laptop :(
  • Gilla_2
    Gilla_2 Posts: 13,228 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts
    I'm not very good at cryptic clues .................and this has some veeeeeeery strange clues !
    42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot
    :hello: Good Luck everyone !:hello:
  • I see Andys back trying to be rude yet again!! Thanks Ricky for this one :D
    2021 Please Be A Better Year
  • you should automatically get £250 for working out all these answers by yourself :)
  • rrickyuk
    rrickyuk Posts: 8,335 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Andy2342 wrote: »
    might have been more helpful if you'd put the answers in your post

    You shouldn't get out of that side of the bed, you know. It does you no favours. :rotfl:
    Al Mac Appreciation Society No. 188
  • oooh crikey... might have to leave this one
    ;) Working hard in the hopes of being 'lucky' ;)
  • LizB62
    LizB62 Posts: 5,368 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Blimey - that's a tricky one.
    I'll print it off and see if my dad will have a go at it ;)

    ** update - actually, I've just looked at the clues for 14A and 20A - not sure I'll give this to my dad to solve after all .........:o
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  • :o:o They're all really rude!!! :o:o
    :A
  • Amilucky?
    Amilucky? Posts: 13,794 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    As I feel that it would be unfair to post the answers on MSE from my undisclosed source I have come up with a cunning plan! :cool:

    The Private Eye Crossword no 381 answers are in encrypted form copy and paste the encryption into the form here http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/ to decrypt the answers then copy and paste the answers into a email

    Email: [EMAIL="crossword@private-eye.co.uk"]crossword@private-eye.co.uk[/EMAIL]
    Subject: Crossword no 381

    Note: some words may have spaces or may need amending as they appear to be lost in translation :rolleyes:

    Note: only copy the text in between the hashes

    Encryption begins
    ##########################################
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    ##############################################################
    Encryption ends
    Warning: This message will self destruct in 60 seconds :eek::eek::eek::eek:
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