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Two crossword enthusiasts talking:
How's things at work?
Dreadful. My boss gets more like Hitler (11 letters)
Dictatorial.
And sales are on the slide in (6)
Greece.
Just hope I don’t, opposite of winning (4)
Lose... (4, 3)
Year-end
Shortened fibula joined to an objective pronoun (5)
Bonus
And you? Had any more thoughts about moving to sounds like a dirty place to live (7)?
Staines? No, thinking more of you wouldn’t stand upright to go there (5, 3)
Crouch End.
Or even, sheer madness (7)
Barking?
Sorry, must... not a dot (4)
Dash
Singular breakfast cereal (7)
Cheerio

6 comments add one below

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    Neville Hunt 10 months ago

    Hehe! Cleaning pad without end. Subjective me and singular Formicida (9)

    Brilliant!

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    Chris 10 months ago

    Can you spot the grammatical howler to keep me within the 100 word limit?

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    Neville Hunt 10 months ago

    Well the line Lose... (4, 3) had me rather fooled, Chris, but the idea is so good as to overlook the missing clue... unless I haven’t got a clue!🥴

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    Chris 10 months ago

    How's things at work?

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    Neville Hunt 10 months ago

    I don't do much these days of a teaching nature - Covid saw to that as the recruitment on the CIM course dropped like a lead turd! I tend to do a QA role, occasionally, for UH's Malaysian partner colleges, i.e. checking the standards of assessment match our home institution.

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    Neville Hunt 10 months ago

    .... I have not forgotten about promising to buy you lunch... it's not me being a tightwad, but our daughter has been in a right state since I last made contact. We're all off to Cornwall for a week and she seems to be cheering up (fingers and toes all crossed). But if you're about week commencing Monday week perhaps we could meet for a pint and some food (on me!) and you can get me up to date on how things are with you? I'm doing a session on drabble writing (what else) for SW on Thursday 15 June at some Stevenage festival and I'd welcome hecklers if you can make it!

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