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It's a bit quiet on here today, so I thought there might be room for another one. And this one is truly MASSIVE! It's a whole concert of covers.
Jules Buckley, (who has to be the coolest conductor dude on the planet), with Pete Tong and the Heritage Orchestra at the 2015 BBC Proms doing "The Radio 1 Ibiza Prom". This is one and a half hours of pure joy/magic and probably the best use of that time that you could ever make. No matter what your musical tastes, you are never going to have more fun listening to an orchestra than this!
The Radio 1 Ibiza Prom - YouTube[^]
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OK - puzzle me this:
You've a number of posts at this point touting 'covers'. Any reason you just don't listen to the real thing? Not that I'm specifically against 'covers' - the first Hot Tuna album (entitled "Hot Tuna", a true thing of beauty,[^] was essentially only covers - basically traditional works that are, practically speaking, always covers.
OK - if somethings' like a hundred-year-old blues piece that can be difficult (not always impossible!), but the real deal's quite available (even on youtube). So, why oh why?
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LOL  If you want me to start listing all the 'real' stuff I like, we are going to be here for a while. In fact, I'm probably going to have reached an age where I can't remember what I liked. 
I guess covers was a small enough category for me to pick a few favourites from. And it is interesting to see someone's completely different take on a track. It also tends to spark a bit of a debate. Will a Led Zep fan stomach Corinne Bailey Rae covering one of their tracks? Light the blue touch paper and stand back! 
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Love "The Inbetweeners", one of my favourite shows.
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You're In A Maze Of Twisty Little Passages, All Alike ...
* Small commercial enterprises (10)
* Teeth bite into short sound and light presentation (10)
* Pleads without a unit of energy around gas hole (10)
* Pre-Christmas is followed by confused user (10)
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Very nice!!!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Adventures?
jsc42 wrote: Pre-Christmas is followed by confused user (10)
Pre-Christmas ADVENT
confused user URES (ana of users)
But what is the solution word?
cheers,
Super
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I think the whole thing about "you are in a maze" is meant to be part of the clue too... Adventures might be found in a maze
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The "you are in a maze" is part of the clue, Adventures might be found in a maze.
There are other clues in the first line as well
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That part is right. You are close!
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Despite not realising it was the solution word, you are the first to come up with ADVENTURES - see 'solution' in thread below for explanation.
So, I think that you are up tomorrow.
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I think he knew "Adventures" was the answer, what he meant was where is the synonym for it (which is typically expected to be part of the clue).
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ADVENTURES
Small commercial AD
enterprises VENTURES
Teeth DENTURES
bite into
short sound and light presentation AV
Pleads without a ?
unit of energy V(olt)
around (anag)
gas hole ?
Pre-Christmas ADVENT
is followed by
confused user URES
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I'm guessing you are looking for ADVENTURER, as someone who has adventures, but ...
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So close. Look at your 'good' answers (in reply to @OriginalGriff). See last two words in the clue line (for all)
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Pleads (URGES)
without a unit of energy (G) URES
around a gas hole VENT But I'm not sure what contributes the "AD".
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Greg Utas wrote: But I'm not sure what contributes the "AD".
Adjures
cheers,
Super
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jsc42 wrote: * Pleads without a unit of energy around gas hole (10)
Pleads without a unit of energy ADJURES
gas hole vent
ADVENTURES
cheers,
Super
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All of the parts are present across the answers suggested. As per hint to OG - see last 2 words in first line.
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@super was first with the word but didn't realise it was the solution
@musefan found the connection with the first line
@OriginalGriff got 3 out of 4 and was extremely close
@super worked out the pleads
But no-one got the unit of work (try Googling 'unit of work' - the first item I get is from Wikipedia)
On balance, I think @super is the winner as he was the first to get the word even that he didn't realise that it was the solution
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Full solution ...
Top line comes from old text-based ADVENTURE gameS
'Twisty Little Passages' could mean cryptic short texts
'All Alike' is a clue to the fact that the answers are all the same
* Small commercial enterprises
Commercial = Advertisment
Small Commercial = AD
Enterprises = VENTURES
=> AD + VENTURES = ADVENTURES
* Teeth bite into short sound and light presentation
Teeth = DENTURES
Sound and light presentation = Audio Visual
Short sound and light presentation = AV
bite into = words overlap each other
=> A_V + _D_ENTURES = ADVENTURES
* Pleads without a unit of energy about gas hole
Pleads = ADJURES
Unit of energy = Joule (SI Symbol: J)
Pleads without a unit of energy = ADJURES - J = AD_URES
Gas hole = VENT
about means VENT is inside AD_URES
=> AD VENT URES = ADVENTURES
* Pre-Christmas confuses user
Pre-Christmas = ADVENT
confuses user = anagram of user = URES
=> ADVENT URES = ADVENTURES
So the answer is ADVENTURES
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The question is - should we solve all 4, or like OG stating the answer with only 3 (or less) would be enough?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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From the rules:
Quote: First person to post the correct answer is the winner. A solution is recommended.
So @super wins and gets to set it tomorrow because he used the word even if he didn't have a full solution.
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