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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
And one more thing: 'lose a note' or 'gain a note' will usually mean a musical note - and indicate that you should either add or remove A. B, C, D, E, F or G (one of the seven musical notes).
There are others. In crossword clues 'engineer' can indicate add RE for Royal Engineer - and there are others that I don't know or have forgotten, too.
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I recall ER for Elizabeth Regina being popular a while back. And abbreviations for states are also not unheard of. Also, the notes have the do-re-mi system as well, which might pop up.
SPM made a pretty good post about cryptic clues rules in the Cryptic thread here:
http://www.forum.barrowdowns.com/sho...30&postcount=7 . I suggest to take a look at it as it explains how the clues work and how to solve them (and make them).
On a different note, I do my best to follow along, but usually can't sit down for long enough to actually solve anything. Well done to all the guessers!