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(For pedants only) - ‘There’s now two Eiffel Towers….’

23 argymargy

This from the BBC website

20 Elegran

Needs…?

55 Caleo

Goes… 🫤

16 FannyCornforth

Go and went

4 Kate54

Literal shipwreck

15 grandtanteJE65

Advice / Advise

52 Gin

Text

14 JackyB

Surpassed

6 MawtheMerrier

Age out

27 Wyllow3

Why is motherhood still the first thing journalists think of?

97 Grantanow

Trollies

11 Grantanow

Radio phone-ins....men can't half talk!

23 Grantanow

Discreet/ discrete. Which one ?

83 Grantanow

Lay and lie….

34 VioletSky

Fridge/freezer

8 MerylStreep

"Her face crumbled ..." Nooooo

59 sodapop

Mothers & Daughters, new book by Erica James

8 grandtanteJE65

Company replies

7 Greyduster

News headline "Eat healthy"

8 Yammy

Lucked in, lucked out.

10 Nandalot

Notoriously infamous

48 sodapop

Eligible

5 Wyllow3

Loath/loathe

16 Aveline

Xmas to New year - limbo time?

42 M0nica

‘New Year’s’ - instead of New Year’s Eve

5 Kate1949

Tense Christmas? 🎄

4 Lathyrus

Son-in-laws, Daughter-in-laws....

16 grandtanteJE65

The importance of punctuation

62 Witzend

Photo’s

20 MaizieD

Reindeers!

18 Baggs

Cleaner

17 welbeck

Christmas cards.

23 Alioop

Furniture item with 'draws' - should be 'drawers'!

39 Bunty24

Rein/ Reign

29 volver

Coronated!!

23 sodapop

Gouged

8 MaizieD

Metric

56 JackyB

Nuclear

42 Witzend

That’s it, I give up….

116 sodapop

Lying in State

2 MawtheMerrier

Le mot juste - does it matter, who cares anyway if it is the right word?

38 Fleurpepper

Oh dear BBC

37 Ali08

Hang your heads in shame, Channel 5

52 MawtheMerrier

Still wondering why they chose this caption

10 mrswoo

Psalms

9 Grandma70s

Superficiality?

43 Judy54

Time for a smile

8 Mollygo

Using underestimated instead of overestimated.

5 annsixty

Quick vs quickly/fast - is it just me?

24 HeavenLeigh