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  • 10: Richard Tiffany’s stuff used in The Faerie Queene (4) GE?E Gere

    Annoyingly, I think that's a reference to 'gear' (stuff) in the style of the Faerie Queene, which was written in a deliberately archaic way. Christ, that's oblique.

  • Thanks, that seems good. It’s unsatisfying when the last few clues are a groan rather than an aha. I did search the full text of the Faerie Queene, and it doesn’t have “gere” in it… boo

  • My theory is all cryptic clues are essentially bad jokes taken to varying degrees of ridiculousness.

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