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{"rowid": 662204, "clue": "Stopping cheat taking in a group that\u2019s lost its head (10)", "answer": "STAUNCHING", "definition": null, "clue_number": "5d", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-10", "puzzle_name": "Rookie Corner 483", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/10/rookie-corner-483/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 662205, "clue": "Raise sheep dog (4,2)", "answer": "RAMP UP", "definition": null, "clue_number": "6d", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-10", "puzzle_name": "Rookie Corner 483", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/10/rookie-corner-483/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 662206, "clue": "Infantrymen\u2018s pay (4)", "answer": "FOOT", "definition": null, "clue_number": "7d", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-10", "puzzle_name": "Rookie Corner 483", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/10/rookie-corner-483/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 662207, "clue": "Better boatman (6)", "answer": "PUNTER", "definition": null, "clue_number": "8d", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-10", "puzzle_name": "Rookie Corner 483", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/10/rookie-corner-483/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 662208, "clue": "Gossip crushes German with dedication (10)", "answer": "COMMITMENT", "definition": null, "clue_number": "12d", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-10", "puzzle_name": "Rookie Corner 483", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/10/rookie-corner-483/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 662209, "clue": "Parent overwhelmed by change in old school (4,5)", "answer": "ALMA MATER", "definition": null, "clue_number": "14d", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-10", "puzzle_name": "Rookie Corner 483", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/10/rookie-corner-483/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 662210, "clue": "Set off to space base, cloaking ship (8)", "answer": "EMBARKED", "definition": null, "clue_number": "16d", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-10", "puzzle_name": "Rookie Corner 483", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/10/rookie-corner-483/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 662211, "clue": "Copper has the last word about judgement (6)", "answer": "ACUMEN", "definition": null, "clue_number": "17d", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-10", "puzzle_name": "Rookie Corner 483", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/10/rookie-corner-483/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 662212, "clue": "Expert at Dior is affected (6)", "answer": "ADROIT", "definition": null, "clue_number": "18d", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-10", "puzzle_name": "Rookie Corner 483", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/10/rookie-corner-483/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 662213, "clue": "Bug bug (6)", "answer": "EARWIG", "definition": null, "clue_number": "21d", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-10", "puzzle_name": "Rookie Corner 483", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/10/rookie-corner-483/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 662214, "clue": "Familiar with home working (2,2)", "answer": "IN ON", "definition": null, "clue_number": "22d", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-10", "puzzle_name": "Rookie Corner 483", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/10/rookie-corner-483/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 662215, "clue": "Encounter many equally enthusiastic trainees initially (4)", "answer": "MEET", "definition": null, "clue_number": "25d", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-10", "puzzle_name": "Rookie Corner 483", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/10/rookie-corner-483/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 658979, "clue": "part of the wordplay to the clue of 20d, prompted me to take a trip down memory lane. I reminisced about my days when I was in my late teens and studying English literature as one of the subjects for graduation. I came across words like spoonerism, malapropism, hamartia, nemesis etc for the first time and found them absolutely enthralling! Other than spoonerism, I would like to discuss malapropism, too. A spoonerism is a verbal error in which a speaker accidentally transposes the initial sounds or letters of two or more words, often to humorous effect. It is named after the Oxford don and ordained master, William Archibald Spooner, who was notoriously prone to this mistake. I now learnt from the net that The Oxford English Dictionary recorded \u2018spoonerism\u2019 in 1900 and the word was well established by 1921, both well before Spooner\u2019s death in 1930. Although Spooner got the credit, spoonerisms of a different variety were already in use as early as the sixteenth century in France. At that time, there lived in France a writer by the name Fran\u00e7ois Rabelais. In his novel Pantagruel, he wrote, \u201cIl n\u2019y a qu\u2019une antistrophe entre femme folle \u00e0 la messe et femme molle \u00e0 la fesse\u201d in which one can clearly see the transposition of the words \u201cfemme folle \u00e0 la messe et femme molle \u00e0 la fesse\u201c. These are known as contrep\u00e8teries. There are a lot many contrep\u00e8teries as there are a lot many spoonerisms. However, the best of the spoonerisms according to me is \u201cYou have hissed all my mystery lectures. You have tasted a whole worm. Please leave Oxford on the next town drain.\u201d Well, one can easily decode the transpositions. On the other hand, a malapropism is the blundering use of a word that rhymes with, or sounds like, the original word. \u2018The Rivals\u2019 of Sheridan was one of the plays that I had to study for the bachelor degree course. A fictional character, Mrs. Malaprop is in that comedy of manners. Mrs. Malaprop frequently misspeaks by using words which do not have the meaning that she intends but which sound similar to words that do. Sheridan chose her name in humorous reference to the word \u2018malapropos\u2019,\u00a0an adjective or adverb meaning \u2018inappropriate\u2019 or \u2018inappropriately\u2019, derived from the French phrase\u00a0mal \u00e0 propos, which literally means \u2018poorly placed\u2019. The first person known to have used the word \u2018malaprop\u2019 specifically in the sense of a \u2018speech error\u2019 is Lord Byron in 1814. Some of the celebrated malapropisms spoken by Mrs. Malaprop are \u201cIlliterate him quite from your memory\u201d, \u201cShe\u2019s as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile\u201d, \u201cHe is the very pineapple of politeness\u201d and \u201cSure, if I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!\u201d If not malapropisms, the sentences would have had the actual words like obliterate, alligator, pinnacle, apprehend, vernacular and epithets respectively.", "answer": "P", "definition": null, "clue_number": "Spooner", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-07", "puzzle_name": "Daily Telegraph 30341", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/07/dt-30341-full-review/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 658980, "clue": "Convenient for the audience, cover what a golfer might have (8)", "answer": "HANDICAP", "definition": "what a golfer might have", "clue_number": "1a", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-07", "puzzle_name": "Daily Telegraph 30341", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/07/dt-30341-full-review/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 658981, "clue": "Way out from wind tunnel (8)", "answer": "LOOPHOLE", "definition": "Way out", "clue_number": "9a", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-07", "puzzle_name": "Daily Telegraph 30341", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/07/dt-30341-full-review/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 658982, "clue": "Drawer containing a corny novel? (6)", "answer": "CRAYON", "definition": "Drawer", "clue_number": "10a", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-07", "puzzle_name": "Daily Telegraph 30341", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/07/dt-30341-full-review/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 658983, "clue": "Countenance economising and avoiding climb-down (4-6)", "answer": "FACE", "definition": "avoiding climb-down", "clue_number": "11a", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-07", "puzzle_name": "Daily Telegraph 30341", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/07/dt-30341-full-review/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 658984, "clue": "A bishop features amount owing (7)", "answer": "ARREARS", "definition": "amount owing", "clue_number": "12a", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-07", "puzzle_name": "Daily Telegraph 30341", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/07/dt-30341-full-review/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 658985, "clue": "Rush to include revolutionary instructor (7)", "answer": "TEACHER", "definition": "instructor", "clue_number": "14a", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-07", "puzzle_name": "Daily Telegraph 30341", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/07/dt-30341-full-review/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 658986, "clue": "Cried as the compiler got married (5)", "answer": "MEWED", "definition": "Cried", "clue_number": "16a", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-07", "puzzle_name": "Daily Telegraph 30341", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/07/dt-30341-full-review/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 658987, "clue": "Unpleasant, like some bowlers? (5)", "answer": "SEAMY", "definition": "Unpleasant", "clue_number": "17a", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-07", "puzzle_name": "Daily Telegraph 30341", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/07/dt-30341-full-review/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 658988, "clue": "Parrot beginning to mimic a different bird sound (5)", "answer": "MACAW", "definition": "Parrot", "clue_number": "18a", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-07", "puzzle_name": "Daily Telegraph 30341", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/07/dt-30341-full-review/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 658989, "clue": "Final blow by 28 with a marsupial (5)", "answer": "KOALA", "definition": "marsupial", "clue_number": "20a", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-07", "puzzle_name": "Daily Telegraph 30341", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/07/dt-30341-full-review/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 658990, "clue": "Scottish author with the ultimate in writer\u2019s block? (7)", "answer": "BARRIER", "definition": "block", "clue_number": "22a", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-07", "puzzle_name": "Daily Telegraph 30341", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/07/dt-30341-full-review/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 658991, "clue": "Similarity of nearly everyone in agony suffering (7)", "answer": "ANALOGY", "definition": "Similarity", "clue_number": "24a", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-07", "puzzle_name": "Daily Telegraph 30341", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/07/dt-30341-full-review/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 658992, "clue": "Delightful spelling (10)", "answer": "ENCHANTING", "definition": "Delightful/spelling", "clue_number": "26a", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-07", "puzzle_name": "Daily Telegraph 30341", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/07/dt-30341-full-review/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 658993, "clue": "City teenager took part in wild revelry (6)", "answer": "RIOTED", "definition": "took part in wild revelry", "clue_number": "27a", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-07", "puzzle_name": "Daily Telegraph 30341", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/07/dt-30341-full-review/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 658994, "clue": "Thug gets gran fighting (8)", "answer": "GANGSTER", "definition": "Thug", "clue_number": "28a", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-07", "puzzle_name": "Daily Telegraph 30341", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/07/dt-30341-full-review/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 658995, "clue": "Murray perhaps may finally play great (8)", "answer": "ALMIGHTY", "definition": "great", "clue_number": "29a", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-07", "puzzle_name": "Daily Telegraph 30341", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/07/dt-30341-full-review/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 658996, "clue": "Beneficiary delivered broadcast in flight (8)", "answer": "AIRBORNE", "definition": "in flight", "clue_number": "2d", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-07", "puzzle_name": "Daily Telegraph 30341", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/07/dt-30341-full-review/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 658997, "clue": "Does one not enjoy night vision? (10)", "answer": "DAYDREAMER", "definition": "Does one not enjoy night vision", "clue_number": "3d", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-07", "puzzle_name": "Daily Telegraph 30341", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/07/dt-30341-full-review/", "source": "bigdave44"}
{"rowid": 658998, "clue": "Agree with clubs playing well (7)", "answer": "CONFORM", "definition": "Agree", "clue_number": "4d", "puzzle_date": "2023-07-07", "puzzle_name": "Daily Telegraph 30341", "source_url": "http://bigdave44.com/2023/07/07/dt-30341-full-review/", "source": "bigdave44"}