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Here's today's CCC!
Clue: After I count off one by one, about shy two points, this needs to be chewn over for a bit. (8)
1st Hint: Cows and sheep do this!
Have fun!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
modified 11-Aug-15 7:02am.
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How many letters?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Not off to a good start on this. 
Thanks!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Fixed!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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How many letters, sir?
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Have a look now! Sorry, I missed that!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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After I - J
count off one by one - ON
anbout shy - HYS ?
two points - ON
JONHYSON ?
But what could it be ... ?
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Rage wrote: But what could it be ... ?
Well for one thing, it is not the solution. 
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Completely off, or is there any reusable thinking ?
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Without telling too much I can assure you that the first two
left sides are grouped correctly, but the meaning is wrong.
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Manfred R. Bihy wrote: Without telling too much
LOL You do not want to be up tomorrow, do you  ?
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Rage wrote: Completely off, or is there any reusable thinking ?
FTFY! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Tada, we have a winner!
Would you care to show the derivation also?
You're on tomorrow!
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Rage wrote: Oh yes, I would. It is just that I do not have it.
Yes, but you can now create it. Having both the clue and the solution.
I'll get you started: "count off one by one" -> enumerate
Better now?
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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anag. I + eNUMERATe obviously, but your definition (indicating a noun) doesn't match your answer (a verb).
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I feared so!
Would "chewing it of over a bit" have been a valid verb indication?
Or does that automatically imply ruminating.
What do you say?
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Ruminating or rumination but not what you want unfortunately. There's really not an alternative to defining a verb with another one, eg. (to) chew over (agreeing in number and tense, of course). You have to mould the clue around the definition in such cases even if it does make your original brilliant idea a no-go.
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So what a valid (CCC) verb definition look like then?
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Would the imperative do?
"Chew it over!"
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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That it would indeed, yes siree Bob!
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I'll try to do better next time. Thanks for your help!
Is it generally harder to do verb definitions than nouns?
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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A tad perhaps but I'd go for adverbs as by far the hardest, followed by adjectives, because it can be so tricky to fit them into a natural sounding sentence. Of course, the luxury you have with this CCC is that you only have to produce one clue on the day so you can practice in the privacy of your own brain and reject any that don't quite work beforehand.
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Movie Quote Of The Day
If God didn't want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep.
Which movie?
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