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abducted (14 points)
Took a berth across Channel
Like earthlings, sometimes, in sci-fi
Ridiculous cut bad editor's taken
A·1+B·3+D·2+U·1+C·3+T·1+E·1+D·2 = 14 pts
abscised (13 points)
Abscise
A·1+B·3+S·1+C·3+I·1+S·1+E·1+D·2 = 13 pts
accented (13 points)
Like some French vowels
Stressed certain syllables
Certain French letters
A·1+C·3+C·3+E·1+N·1+T·1+E·1+D·2 = 13 pts
accepted (15 points)
Received something offered
Believed to be valid
Agreed to receive, or approved
A·1+C·3+C·3+E·1+P·3+T·1+E·1+D·2 = 15 pts
accessed (13 points)
Made contact with
Got into, as a website
Reached hacker style
A·1+C·3+C·3+E·1+S·1+S·1+E·1+D·2 = 13 pts
accorded (14 points)
Granted as proper.
Given in a stringy sort of way
Bestowed on
A·1+C·3+C·3+O·1+R·1+D·2+E·1+D·2 = 14 pts
accosted (13 points)
Approached boldly, solicited
Approached and spoke to
Approached - when priced under a hundred
A·1+C·3+C·3+O·1+S·1+T·1+E·1+D·2 = 13 pts
accreted (13 points)
Enlarged bit by bit
Built up gradually
Grew together
A·1+C·3+C·3+R·1+E·1+T·1+E·1+D·2 = 13 pts
accursed (13 points)
Under a spell, perhaps
Charged across river, doomed
Detestable chapter in abandoned crusade
A·1+C·3+C·3+U·1+R·1+S·1+E·1+D·2 = 13 pts
acerated (11 points)
Needle-shaped
A·1+C·3+E·1+R·1+A·1+T·1+E·1+D·2 = 11 pts
acetamid (13 points)
An amide of acetic acid
A·1+C·3+E·1+T·1+A·1+M·3+I·1+D·2 = 13 pts
acetated (11 points)
Relating to a salt of acetic acid
A·1+C·3+E·1+T·1+A·1+T·1+E·1+D·2 = 11 pts
achieved (17 points)
Dive and got there with an ache
Reached or accomplished
Bad advice he obtained
A·1+C·3+H·4+I·1+E·1+V·4+E·1+D·2 = 17 pts
acidhead (15 points)
Drug-taker (slang)
Taker of hallucinogenic drugs (slang)
LSD taker (slang)
A·1+C·3+I·1+D·2+H·4+E·1+A·1+D·2 = 15 pts
acquired (20 points)
Got papers without a disc (wordplay)
Came into possession of
Came to have.
A·1+C·3+Q·10+U·1+I·1+R·1+E·1+D·2 = 20 pts
actinoid (11 points)
""Any of a series of radioactive elements, also ACTINIDE""
A·1+C·3+T·1+I·1+N·1+O·1+I·1+D·2 = 11 pts
actuated (11 points)
Put into motion
Turned on top director, tightly drawn up within
Got going
A·1+C·3+T·1+U·1+A·1+T·1+E·1+D·2 = 11 pts
acylated (14 points)
Acylate
A·1+C·3+Y·4+L·1+A·1+T·1+E·1+D·2 = 14 pts
addicted (13 points)
Dependent on drugs
Unable to let it go, in a way
Dependent on something habit-forming
A·1+D·2+D·2+I·1+C·3+T·1+E·1+D·2 = 13 pts
adducted (13 points)
Adduct
A·1+D·2+D·2+U·1+C·3+T·1+E·1+D·2 = 13 pts
advanced (15 points)
Made progress during Lent!
Far on; complex
Lent - ahead in development
A·1+D·2+V·4+A·1+N·1+C·3+E·1+D·2 = 15 pts
advected (15 points)
Advect
A·1+D·2+V·4+E·1+C·3+T·1+E·1+D·2 = 15 pts
affected (17 points)
Given to a false show
Pretended to be touched
Pretentious, designed to impress
A·1+F·4+F·4+E·1+C·3+T·1+E·1+D·2 = 17 pts
anchored (14 points)
Ron ached (anagram)
Presented the top stories, perhaps
Dropped in to run the last leg!
A·1+N·1+C·3+H·4+O·1+R·1+E·1+D·2 = 14 pts
anconoid (11 points)
Pertaining to the elbow
A·1+N·1+C·3+O·1+N·1+O·1+I·1+D·2 = 11 pts
anticked (15 points)
Antic
A·1+N·1+T·1+I·1+C·3+K·5+E·1+D·2 = 15 pts
anticold (11 points)
Effective against the common cold
A·1+N·1+T·1+I·1+C·3+O·1+L·1+D·2 = 11 pts
arachnid (14 points)
Tick, for one
One often on the web (wordplay)
Daddy-longlegs, for one
A·1+R·1+A·1+C·3+H·4+N·1+I·1+D·2 = 14 pts
archived (17 points)
Stored, as public records
Filed in historical records
Stored, as old files
A·1+R·1+C·3+H·4+I·1+V·4+E·1+D·2 = 17 pts
arcuated (11 points)
""Arched like a bow, also ARCUATE""
A·1+R·1+C·3+U·1+A·1+T·1+E·1+D·2 = 11 pts
articled (11 points)
- Clerk, trainee solicitor
Apprenticed, as a lawyer
Like some clerks
A·1+R·1+T·1+I·1+C·3+L·1+E·1+D·2 = 11 pts
ascended (12 points)
Has counsel finished at last (wordplay)
How counsel got up and finished
Got up like the last of the century
A·1+S·1+C·3+E·1+N·1+D·2+E·1+D·2 = 12 pts
ascribed (13 points)
Chalked up (to)
Credited the writer in a TV pitch
Gave credit to
A·1+S·1+C·3+R·1+I·1+B·3+E·1+D·2 = 13 pts
attached (14 points)
Stapled together, perhaps
Fond and affectionate (to)
Silly chat with date in relationship
A·1+T·1+T·1+A·1+C·3+H·4+E·1+D·2 = 14 pts
attacked (15 points)
Was really offensive (wordplay)
What G. W. did at Trenton
Beset by marauders
A·1+T·1+T·1+A·1+C·3+K·5+E·1+D·2 = 15 pts
auricled (11 points)
Relating to an auricle
A·1+U·1+R·1+I·1+C·3+L·1+E·1+D·2 = 11 pts
autacoid (11 points)
Certain hormone
A·1+U·1+T·1+A·1+C·3+O·1+I·1+D·2 = 11 pts
autocoid (11 points)
""A hormone, also AUTACOID""
A·1+U·1+T·1+O·1+C·3+O·1+I·1+D·2 = 11 pts
avouched (17 points)
Declared as true
Affirmed or asserted
A·1+V·4+O·1+U·1+C·3+H·4+E·1+D·2 = 17 pts

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