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One quarter of the quick and secure, wanton diet? (4)
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Fast ?
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That was quick!
I thought it might last longer than that ... you are up tomorrow. 
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I wasn't convinced it was right but it was a leaper because of the wanton diet part - unsure about the quarter part 
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Well the quarter part must mean "only use one of these 4 words" in which "quick" = "fast", but unless "wanton" is part of the definition I would have counted "the quick and secure wanton" as five words?
Basically, I am saying I don't really know what "wanton" means! 
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musefan wrote: Basically, I am saying I don't really know what "wanton" means!
Use a dictionary!
One quarter of:
the quick FAST, as in "fast as light"
and secure, FAST, as in "stuck fast"
wanton FAST, as in "fast woman"
diet FAST, as in "on a fast until Lent"
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OriginalGriff wrote: Use a dictionary!
Yeah, I googled it... still didn't help me. I guess because I was thinking "quarter" meant one of, and you had already used quick = fast so I just discarded the association. I would never have got fast from "secure" though, so wouldn't have got the "4 definitions" approach you went for.
All good knowledge for my clue writing career though!
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One quarter of:
the quick FAST, as in "fast as light"
and secure, FAST, as in "stuck fast"
wanton FAST, as in "fast woman"
diet FAST, as in "on a fast until Lent"
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Blimey, all that thought and some smart arse got it straight away
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Yeah - anyone know who it was, so I can strangle 'im?
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I guess that's the problem with short answers, in that it's usually fairly simple to just find the synonym for the definition part without having to even consider or understand the rest of the clue.
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Hang on, I have only just realised... you posted this 10 days ago? 
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Time machines. I hate elephanting time machines.
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So you are suggesting that KornfeldEliyahuPeter is a Smurf 
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I'm not suggesting anything, but there are worse things to be
Feel free to fill in the blanks:
Better a Smurf than a ............
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Azrael![^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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For us Americans, they are 37 years old. They came to North America in 1981. I had no idea they were a thing before that. Interesting story.
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1981? I think I saw that stuff years before that. 1978, maybe.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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1981, look it up. He even gave you the link for it in his OP.
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I was about to say...I know I'm not that old, yet.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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I still remember an elementary school teacher railing against the Smurfs, because comics were supposed to get us interested in reading, but the problem with the Smurfs is that it's all Smurf this, and Smurf that, and I'm gonna Smurf your Smurf, and no Smurfing way, etc. So for us young learners, the way she saw it, it brought very little of value to a vocabulary that would last us a lifetime.
So nearly 40 years later, I say, Smurf'em.
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I always thought it was fairly instructive in terms of comprehending sentence structure.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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