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Mothers singular MA ("singular" to get rid of the "S" I needed to make it work as a sentence)
Except you didn't cos you missed out the essential possessive apostrophe! Such shenanigans weren't even necessary. "Mother's direction" in crosswordese can mean "Mother has" with the 'has' serving merely as a linking word.
direction R (For "Right")
Right isn't a direction, it's a side! N, E, W, S etc. are directions because they're constants; right, left, starboard, port etc. are sides because they depend entirely upon alignment.
contains IN (To make you think something was to be inside something else)
That makes no sense at all! There is no world in which IN and CONTAINS are even remotely synonymous! CONTAINED maybe but definitely not CONTAINS!
Like your solver I leapt to the answer in a few seconds but I'm afraid it was entirely in spite of rather than because of the clue! Just saying!
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What about the case of Queen's?
Wouldn't it have to be ER's then?
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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No. By convention, crossword answers are assumed to be in the form which they are written into the grid, ie. in capitals and without punctuation.
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Member 9082365 wrote: Right isn't a direction
So you can't "Go right", or "Head right" then?
Member 9082365 wrote: There is no world in which IN and CONTAINS are even remotely synonymous!
in
ɪn
preposition
1.
expressing the situation of something that is or appears to be enclosed or surrounded by something else. Possibly CONTAINED would have been better, but it's close enough! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: So you can't "Go right", or "Head right" then?
Yes you can but only relative to your present position. If someone asks you what direction Sheffield is in you don't say 'right' (at least I hope you don't)!
OriginalGriff wrote: Possibly CONTAINED would have been better, but it's close enough!
No ... really ... it's not!!!
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Well I had only partial answer
Mother = MA
Direction = R
Contains = IN
But the MARINERS fit the solution, so I jumped the gun as I had to go to a meeting.
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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super wrote: MARINERS
Please explain it, as I can't get it except
Mothers = Ma.
Is it something like this:
singular direction = RI
contains the Queen's sailors = NERS
As we know the answer already we can take it the way we want 
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Queen's I should imagine is the ERS bit.
Mariners is the sailors.
Mothers singular = MA
Direction = RIN for some reason I don't understand.
RIN[^]
Routing Instruction Note?
Royal Institute of Navigation?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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direction - R
contains - IN
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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chriselst wrote: Direction = RIN for some reason I don't understand.
Routing Instruction Note?
Royal Institute of Navigation?
"Return Incident Number" suits the best among all, as it returns incident number they say, here it returns direction, we dunno how but it does return direction
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Suddenly everyone's a critic!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Ok, an easy one.
x==->
And do reply with the solution! 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Apollo 13?
Kitty at my foot and I waAAAant to touch it...
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Yes, it was "Arrow".
Thanks for answering and you are up tomorrow. 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Agent__007 wrote: Yes, it was "Arrow"
So what is it now? 
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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A very painful prick? 
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Manfred R. Bihy wrote: So what is it now?
it has become an arr-ay of arrow-s as it started getting multiplied in a-row
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But what will happen when they hit the advancing column?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well in that case they will be called as squ-arrows cause the arrows will get squ-eezed in size as the arr-ay of arrows hits the squ-are shaped cell
And yeah sorry for late reply, I was busy in celebrating our independence day 
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Now it has become a pain that Rage might be feeling to set one for tomorrow.
And don't know about others, but I found it difficult* to set this FSOW than any of the CCCs I've ever set.
*Until I finalized the word, that is.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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