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I win again! Yay!
Last chance tomorrow, before it reverts to ... @Peter-in-2780 ...
A threesome - predict the French red wine upset enemies at the prow! (10)
A threesome
predict FORECAST
the French LE
red wine CLARET
upset (anag)
enemies FOES
at the prow! FORECASTLE Three clues in one: all the same solution!
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Thats tricky!
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Hah! You wait for tomorrows!
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So, how much time it takes you to make it? I am sure these are your own creation.
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Yesterdays took a while - I thought of the word while drifting off to sleep, and "fleshed it out" during the period between the cat jumping up and down on my bladder because he wants his breakfast and my getting up - so about an hour or so of "thinking time"
Todays was about ten minutes.
Same process: think of a word, break it up, twist it about, think about synonyms ... and then nail it all together and hack off the bits that don't work.
Tomorrows? Well, version one was about ten minutes, including some Google research to check validity.
Version two just flowed together and was complete in sixty seconds or so.
If you are interested, version one - now discarded - was "First letter of the alphabet". Want to try and solve it?
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alpha? (First letter of the Greek alphabet and start of the word 'alphabet')
or t? (first letter of 'The alphabet')
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Nope: four letters.
Very close though: the Phoenician alphabet - Wikipedia[^] predates Greek (indeed, "alpha" is derived from the Phoenician "alep") and since before Phoenician all written material was hieroglyph based, it's first letter was the solution I wanted: ALEP - first letter of any alphabet
But you'd have to be a true word nerd to know that, and ALEP isn't an English word anyway, so I decided to go with something else entirely.
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OriginalGriff wrote: and ALEP isn't an English word anyway
And that's where Hebrew comes in handy
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Ah, the "threesome" was related to the three clues. I was desperately trying to find some connection to well, other meanings of "threesome" that could apply to naval types!
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There are other meanings?
He said, whistling innocently ...
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Well,
For what it's worth, I found forecastle about 20 minutes after you posted it. But I couldn't make it fit with "A threesome -" so I stayed silent. If you would have put that above or below the clue the solution would have been posted.
I spent about another 10 minutes looking at it and couldn't make "A threesome" work. Your clue also reads as Gameplayer with a gamay wine or Hyperreal with a syrah but they didn't really fit the definition so I folded and went on about my day.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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