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Ruminate :

(of a ruminant) chew the cud.

"goats ruminated nonchalantly around them"


That excerpt above is from from online google dictionary ...

Dunno if this was a pun injected as well love it if so :)
 

Dillspur

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I don't know if this has been answered, but the double cryptic, is it about 2 players coming or 2 clues about 1 player??
 

gavspur

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OK

The cryptic.......I shot the sheriff

= Martial was at the training ground

As for the ins and outs of the actual reasoning behind the cryptic, you’ll have to wait for the author to fess up and as a dual, don’t go off on one moaning about it, I haven’t the patience......

So.....apart from todays cryptic we’re square, right?

Wow, so even though I got the reasoning wrong, and made up that Bob Marley’s Dad was called Anthony, I actually got the cryptic right.

Well bugger me backwards and call me Geoffrey.
 

Ionman34

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There are a few parts of this that could be interpreted to mean Sergej Milinkovic-Savic.

The etymology of 'Sergej' is Latin, and in Latin it apparently means shepherd (as well as protector, attendant).

'M' and 'S' are capitalised, seemingly giving them importance. Obviously they provide the initials for Milinkovic-Savic. Also relating to his name is that 'double-cryptic' is hyphenated when it shouldn't be, perhaps referencing the hyphen in his surname.

Somewhat more tenuously (if the above isn't tenuous enough), and 'ruminate on' being established as an anagram for numeration, there are the same amount of letters after that anagram and before the hyphen (so between the end of 'on' and the hyphen) as there is in Milinkovic. After the hyphen and before the comma is obviously the word 'cryptic,' which clearly doesn't have the same number of letters as 'Savic,' but if you remove the number of letters in 'Savic' from 'cryptic,' perhaps interestingly it leaves two letters, 'ic' which both present at the end of both his family names.
That’s some seriously good weed you got there...
 

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The RLC rumours have been doing the rounds for a week or so, but in all honesty I don't see it happening. Chelsea are not in a great place as far as cash flow is concerned though so watch this space.
 

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The RLC rumours have been doing the rounds for a week or so, but in all honesty I don't see it happening. Chelsea are not in a great place as far as cash flow is concerned though so watch this space.
Cheers Trix. Unless he has a weird contract clause that let's him out I don't see any way Chelsea would let him join us. They more than just about any club would rather die. Feels like a fools chase.
 
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