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Chalfont & Latimer?
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Cryptic clues = station name
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Chalfont & Latimer?
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I'm afraid not. Would love to know how you got C & L ...
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Unsurprisingly, without too much thought: Chalfont as 'al' (Gore) and for some reason I can't fathom out I thought the former cartoon character 'Alf' was a panda, where is transpires the he was/is an alien. So I'll move on.
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But the comeback may be on: Godalming.
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My American father & really nice brother tell me that safe keeping starts in their city.
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No but can I ask how you got to Paisley?
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Not Poplar. Happy to say if you’re on the right track if you want to say how you got to Poplar.
American dads are called Pop but got stuck on the other clues so went for Poplar. Now trying to work out other clues.
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Keep thinking along those lines (that’s not a cryptic clue, btw).
Motherwell?
Poppleton?? (Pop -- brother Larry who's so nice that he's perfect or all-but, therefore p.l. -- the "city" of Eton, near Windsor [in the US, a three-houses-and-a-pub hamlet quite often calls itself ' **** City ' ] ) -- desperate, I know...
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The “pa” bit is correct and is a clue/aid to part of the answer. And the “Isley” bit deserves to be be correct but isn’t. Nice thinking though.
The station concerned is a one-word answer.
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I was thinking Partick too
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It's not Partick. The 'pa' isn't part of the answer but a (vague) clue to part of the answer.
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I'm going to try for a curveball and say Chester.
Chester is a town in Pennyslvania, coded PA (American father). Really nice brother to refer to a like-named place. A chest is somewhere you can keep something safe, which starts the city CHEST-er.
Chester is a town in Pennyslvania, coded PA (American father). Really nice brother to refer to a like-named place. A chest is somewhere you can keep something safe, which starts the city CHEST-er.
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It's not Chester. The 'PA' is spot on, as a clue to part of the answer, linked to the 'really nice brother' (again, in a vague sort of way). Re the other part of the answer, you are along the right lines. Closer (again, not a cryptic clue).
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Featherstone?
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American father = Pa = Official 2 letter code for the state of Pennsylvania.
Really nice brother = brother who loves me = love = brotherly love = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania = Philly
Safe keeping starts in their city = care = Caer + Philly = does indeed get us to Caerphilly.
Well done, the floor is yours.
Thanks; but -- so much in the shape of cumulative hints and help along the way; and I was metaphorically groping through dense fog throughout -- I really can't feel that here, I merit a turn. Open floor, please.
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Have sex with a vicar at this station? Not me!
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Rogerstone? Roger as in, er 'roger' and the first transgender vicar, Carol Stone, who is no longer with us.