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Cryptic clues = station name
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perryman
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Thanks.
To aspire to get to this station you require an A-
To aspire to get to this station you require an A-
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It is not Tain.
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Clue 2: If the fictional head of the Secret Intelligence Service turned traitor, he or she could well be described as this, sort of.
Clue 1: To aspire to get to this station you require an A-
Clue 1: To aspire to get to this station you require an A-
My not-infrequent thing -- desperate, getting daft: Clue 1: haven't the foggiest. Clue 2: this fictional personage in those vulgar espionage novels for entertainment of the hoi polloi is called -- so I understand -- "M". A spy turning traitor, is presumed likely to be equipped with clandestine photographic gear so as to record material in their keeping, for the benefit of their new masters. "Ilford" is a name famous in the photographic field: so, M + Ilford = Milford (Surrey).
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d9009alycidon
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Haven't looked in on this thread for a few days, but I think I have an answer that fits both clues - Aspire = dream - a =Drem. And M might be a "red" if they were a traitor, so anagram of red and M also gives Drem.
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I couldn’t have answered it any better.
Well done, Comrade, this message will self-destruct, etc etc. Over to you.
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Throwing it open as I am struggling for a decent poser.
No -- you sorted the anagram and got the answer: you deserve the floor ! "Eastern" because it's in the east of England, in a town served by ex-LNER lines; "eastern" could also be reckoned to mean Japanese -- fantasy of a Japanese seaborne expedition, centuries ago (kind-of like the Chinese exploring fleet which supposedly went to other continents, but nothing ever came of it), reaching Australia and getting wrecked and "in bother" there -- ship's captain screws up his courage to tell the Shogun in charge of the expedition to make himself useful by, for example, catching a kangaroo for them to eat.
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Crikey, after that explanation I'll try one with an easier resolution.
Varied threats leave a clue to this station.
Varied threats leave a clue to this station.
I'm fond of saying, "I'm better at setting 'em than getting 'em" -- but with your not seeming over-impressed with my South Seas epic; perhaps "more inventively wordy" would be appropriate, rather than "better". This one, not a bit easy for me. Am beginning to wonder whether on some "new-generation" tramway / metro system up north, there might be a stop called East Threavel -- anagram of "threats leave" ...
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Helensburgh Upper? (Saint Helens - b for blonde - urgh for horrible and on high for upper)
RobertsN
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Horton-In-Ribblesdale. Anagram of the first 3 words.
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Just to submit something, no matter how off-beam: Starcross ? -- "doubly angry": stark (raving) [sense of furious, rather than demented] -- sharing the c/k element, with "cross"; and likely enough, the estuary there plays host to oysters, naked or otherwise. As for "G{g}erman s{S}cot" -- I have no idea.
Evershot (Yeovil -- Dorchester line) came fleetingly to mind; but that is (a) south-west-England-y, and (b) closed
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