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    3) Parent’s siblings are not transgender.>>> forgot the clue for this one earlier, so the clue is : Hugh Laurie played Berty.
    8) The Goddess’s name is putrid>>> think a book that niamh keeps talking about!
    9) He just couldn’t say no>>> Nonfiction book that both I an niamh raved about a couple of months ago

    20) The silent grotesque>>> what is another word for someone who is completly silent? somthing that is grotesque is somthing that is .....? the first book in a fantasy trilogy published in 2001
    okay some final clues to help!
    3)Aunts cant be this
    8) for this one think of an ancient greek goddess that is only associated with a childrens book by name. or think, the hunter and the chicken
    9)opposite of no is? if he could not say no, he could only affirm, which made him the .........
    20)ugly and could not speak or she was caught in a bitterbynde
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
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    Ok so Im back sorry folks, and thanks niamh,
    re: number 3 to clarify , yes Jeeves and Wooster is the right answer sort of looking for a specific title published in the 1970s.
    If your fathers sister is a lady she can not be a ? that is the answer.
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    Ok so Im back sorry folks, and thanks niamh,
    re: number 3 to clarify , yes Jeeves and Wooster is the right answer sort of looking for a specific title published in the 1970s.
    If your fathers sister is a lady she can not be a ? that is the answer.
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    Exclamation Answers!

    Well if everyone given up here is the full list ....

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    1)an analysis of Mrs R. Butler>>> A Study in Scarlet by Conan Doyle
    2) The Gatherer >>>The Collector by Fowles ( or the Harvester by Stratton-Porter)
    3) Parent’s siblings are not transgender.>>>Aunts aren't Gentlemen By Wodehouse
    4) Hefner is not the original>>> The playboy of the western world by Synge
    5) Offspring of the industrial age>>>>>The railway children by Nesbit
    6) of Milton and Helstone>>>>North and South By Gaskell
    7) a raging cyclone>>>> The Tempest by Shakespeare
    8) The Goddess’s name is putrid>>>>>>Artemis Fowl by Colfer
    9) He just couldn’t say no>>>>Yesman by Wallace
    10) Settlment in the bend of a river>>>>Hamlet by SHakespeare
    11) A dreary dwelling place>>>>>>>Bleak house by Dickens
    12) Needed so others can understand>>>>Transaltions by Frail
    13) Sewer rat in two cities>>>>>Down and Out in Paris and London by Orwell
    14) Misplaced royal heir>>>>>>The lost prince by Burnett
    15) Cold monarch>>>>>The Ice Queen by Hoffman
    16) She wore widow’s weeds>>>>The woman in Black by HIll
    17) Debate on unbalance>>>>>Discourse on Inequality by ROusseau
    18) Pretentious pageant>>>>>>Vanity fair by Thackeray
    19) The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker>>>>>>Three men in a boat by Jerome
    20) The silent grotesque>>>>The Ill- made mute by Dart-Thornton
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    Fairly Easy list.

    1.) Russian Siblings The Brothers Karamazov
    2.) Sometimes called the "Ides" Middlemarch
    3.) Wrong doing leads to justice Crime and Punishment
    4.) No one saw him coming The Invisible Man
    5.) Deceased Costermonger Death of a Saleman
    6.) Needed to play checkers The Red and the Black
    7.) Primitive dads were more than slightly perverted Clan of the Cave Bear
    8.) Haunted by four spirits A Cristmas Carol
    9.) The groom went back for a second kiss
    10.) Janet Jackson Black Beauty
    11.) Two shows, not one
    12.) Deity over little stuff The God of Small Things
    13.) My smart-butt penguin, almost The Godfather
    14.) Things seem to be looking brighter
    15.) The world was destroyed to make way for a new spaceroute The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    16.) In another language, this word is death Mort, by Terry Pratchett
    17.) Tic-Tack-Toe Noughts and Crosses
    18.) Rodentia and Homo Sapiens Of Mice and Men
    19.) One brother murdered the other originally Of Kane and Able
    20.) Checkmate! I take your rook! The Castle by Kafka

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    1.) Russian Siblings - Three sisters?
    2.) Sometimes called the "Ides" - Friday the 13th, ha ha!
    4.) No one saw him coming - The invisible man?
    5.) Deceased Costermonger - Death of a salesman?
    12.) Deity over little stuff - The God of small things
    15.) The world was destroyed to make way for a new spaceroute - The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
    18.) Rodentia and Homo Sapiens - Of mice and men

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    Aaaahhhh!! He returns. Missed ya.
    1. The Brothers Karamazov
    2. Middlemarch
    3. Crime and Punishment
    6. The Red and the Black
    19. Kane and Abel
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    Is 8 Dickens'christmas carol pen
    and 17 Noughts and crosses by Malorie Blackman
    ?


    ( Im glad I didnt completly kill off the thread )
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    20. Ender's Game
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bitterfly View Post
    1.) Russian Siblings - Three sisters?
    2.) Sometimes called the "Ides" - Friday the 13th, ha ha!
    4.) No one saw him coming - The invisible man?
    5.) Deceased Costermonger - Death of a salesman?
    12.) Deity over little stuff - The God of small things
    15.) The world was destroyed to make way for a new spaceroute - The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
    18.) Rodentia and Homo Sapiens - Of mice and men
    Right for everything except #1 & #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by PabloQ View Post
    Aaaahhhh!! He returns. Missed ya.
    1. The Brothers Karamazov
    2. Middlemarch
    3. Crime and Punishment
    6. The Red and the Black
    19. Kane and Abel
    Congratulations on every one right!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nightshade View Post
    Is 8 Dickens'christmas carol pen
    and 17 Noughts and crosses by Malorie Blackman
    ?


    ( Im glad I didnt completly kill off the thread )
    Both correct!
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    Quote Originally Posted by PabloQ View Post
    20. Ender's Game
    Nope Think about that "rook"
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    Is no.13 about Jeeves???
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats

    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
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