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Right up to the canal


By Alex Rettie


1. Only one donkey:
I saw my father's face in the glass and turned away.

2. All the way to Africa, quickly.
The return trip is not so fast;
The child not only remembers his father's birth - he assists at it.

3. Where do these come from?
An archer
A scholar
The daughter of a cabinet secretary

4. The imperfect cruelty of the poultryman; a fixed array in a tinker's tat.

5. The good fruit hanging sweet on the vine binds the donkey.

6. (There and back again)
(2x)
Where x = 10
                        11
                                12
                                           13
                                                      70
Explain.

7. The assessment plus 20% and it's yours.
A talent a socket = 100

8. A lemon, a frond, boughs and willows
The halt and blind are like the gazelle and the deer -
in the settlement only.

9. Camping laundry is somehow special. When do you need it by?

10. Flee to the city of refuge - stay until the polls close.
I hope my brothers do their bit.

11. Every fifty years our bequest is diminished -
we should've stucks to sharks .

 

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