Word Restoration Game

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sometimes funny often fearinducing conversion of a Fnatasy entity

@Kewpie said
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Sorry, "count" should have been "shape"

@Ghost-of-a-Duke said
Think we need another clue.

@Ponderable said
That one was solved before Kewpie posted...

@Ghost-of-a-Duke said
I don't think so old chap. She responded 'no.'

@Ponderable said
You are right old chap. I somehow had skipped that post 🙁

@Kewpie said
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the count is different for birds - and we all have just one.

@Kewpie said
The shape is different - for males and females - the first clue.
Birds is the second clue.
The remainder is the whole-word clue.

@Kewpie said
RIBCAGE

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A meaty clue, however you slice it.


Edit: Oops. Please solve Ponderable's first.

You should know my M.O. by now: I try for common everyday compound words (or pseudo-compound words) which give me an opportunity to mix 3 clues together in cryptic fashion. (Hopeless at cryptic crosswords myself.)

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facial hair and liver juice move around.

@Kewpie said
You should know my M.O. by now: I try for common everyday compound words (or pseudo-compound words) which give me an opportunity to mix 3 clues together in cryptic fashion. (Hopeless at cryptic crosswords myself.)

● O ● I ● E
facial hair and liver juice move around.

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@Ghost-of-a-Duke

MOBILE - how anyone could see that I'll never know

@Earl-of-Trumps
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