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Oct 15, 2014 · The evidence is that the eye part of private eye is a pun derived from private investigator, via the abbreviations PI and private I. It first appears in a story by Raymond Chandler in Dime Detective magazine in June 1938: “We don’t use any private eyes in here. So sorry.”. Private investigator began as a general term for a specialist who ...
Aug 28, 2024 · Think it’s dress (assuming the crossers are right) but can’t parse. Of course! Many thanks Chrise. Fellow with one ball, right erotic performer. (9) Fandancer, erotic performer (I had to look it up!). F, fellow, an, one, dance,ball and R, right.
Sep 11, 2024 · Home » Forum » Private Eye 787. GO TO ONLINE PUZZLES! Try solving our online crossword puzzles! Enjoyable solve, tho' perhaps more challenging than of late. COD 18a.
Jul 4, 2024 · hally. 4th July 2024, 11:14. Thank you, I have now got it, and corrected 9 down. 6 of 29 - Report This Post. alvin. 4th July 2024, 18:01. This time around I am stuck on 14across Somersault and drop off backwards, tits beginning to get pert (8) and 9 down Lice virtually spread by China-disaster that's barely covered by most campaigning ...
May 22, 2024 · Surely it can't be larger! Larder, reserve. L, large, and Harder, more erect, with the H lost, not the first. Glad I could help.
Jul 18, 2024 · Member, defined at the end of the clue. Me, Cyclops, MBE,award +R, right. Thanks. Mis spelled25 across. Glad I could help, Hastings69. 25a Not sure about this but think the answer may be LACKLUSTRE, as it fits, but I don't know what a sporting result has to do with Lustre.
May 9, 2024 · A Mic (rophone) + Able, clever ( missing from your clue, but I have the magazine!) 20 Ceiling, upper limit. Anagram of C, caught+ in lie + the 'g' at the start, top, of government. Prosper, boom.. Proper, right, with the S from the start of Sunak.
Apr 10, 2024 · mrsalad. 11th April 2024, 16:58. Eye 776. 4A "Good to have youth support, as campaigning politician's often do" (4-4). Think the answer is glad rags but can't for the life of parse it with the clue! 6 of 29 - Report This Post. geting. 11th April 2024, 17:15. I think the answer might be GLAD-HAND. Hand = support.
Aug 14, 2024 · Home » Forum » Private Eye 785. GO TO ONLINE PUZZLES! Try solving our online crossword puzzles! Mixed bag : too many hidden sequences and a couple of dubious meanings (9a & 21a) along with some corkers (20d & 14d)
Mar 27, 2024 · If 7a is BANKRUPTCY then this looks like BYPASS. 7 Anagram of Turn back and the P and the Y from each end (extreme wings) of Party. Thanks malone; that's enabled me to finish this one. 1D. Sacked Eurosceptic, that is to say, revolutionary (9)
