Rhyme game

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Tragic magic then is replaced by

Woodland scrounger (6,6)

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Or "scrounging woodland creature" maybe

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ah yes, badger cadger?

I'd wondered about this and then, what with one thing and another, forgot to post the suggestion!

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Yup, seems to be atypical for a badger, they're normally portrayed as hard-working and wise.

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Maybe that's why others didn't think of it?

Need to ponder the next, will be back

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Dull beverage (7,4)

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Well, the clue makes my brain believe it *should* just be "ditchwater" but that's not a rhyming pair of course, and not really for drinking

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The drink is quite a common one which I certainly enjoy several times a week.

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Tea, coffee, wine?

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The last!

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Well unshine wine can't be right

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Other definitions are bland and inoffensive

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Well the one I was avoiding was routine, being an eye-rhyme for wine without the sound

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But without the shove, I'd have put a tiny emphasis on benign wine being slightly more positive than just "dull". Inoffensive, yes, that pushed me right.

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Benign isn't the word I had in mind and it is only 6 letters.

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OK, that pushed me wrong again then. I feel a bit more comfortable that benign wasn't offensive but still not exactly dull.
To be honest, I'd forgotten about the letter count, just clutching at any rhyme.

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Phaugh

I think I need something a bit more peppy than your Anodyne Wine

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Yeah, it doesn't sound too interesting does it

Well done! Over to you.

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Keep on a single storey (5,4)

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still pondering this. The only thoughts I have had so far don't have the correct letter count.