Rhyme game

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Be careful regarding homonyms

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That's a good maxim for a top of the page post!

It's a bit like those annoying ads that exhort you "always keep away from children". We do our best but sometimes children don't keep away from us.

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Keep clues the 4 letter word

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Probably Captain Snort would prefer a bungalow

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The crenellations don't go very high

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Short Fort?

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At last! That's right, of course

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Sorry it took me so long!

Lectured in wrong-doing (6,4)

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I don't want to be so quick it suggests it's much easier than the last, but I think this one is taught tort.

[LAT]

Well done!

I did wonder if it was a bit easy!

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Well I hope this one doesn't take months either!

The whole two dozen (6, 5)

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Entire quire?

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That is the answer, yes! (It could possibly have been 25 too but hey)

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I actually got it by thinking of Entire first and then wondered what might rhyme. First thought was choir but couldn't find that there was any consensus on how many people there should be. Then came

I shall have a think for what next.

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An unexpectedly successful cuppa (4,4)

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I can't help feeling that the crew grew to rue the gnu when it trod on the canoe with a shoe of blue hue. But actually getting a clue? Not true.

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Very good! Not sure I'm inventive enough to follow that! Well done.

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So it's something brew then? True brew?

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Yes to Brew. I had that as the first word.

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Think publicity rather than military