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Mothers singular direction contains the Queen's sailors (8)
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MARINERS ???
cheers,
Super
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You are up tomorrow, but do you want to explain why?
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It was the only thing I could think off but apart from Ma I couldn't figure the rest out
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Mothers singular MA ("singular" to get rid of the "S" I needed to make it work as a sentence)
direction R (For "Right")
contains IN (To make you think something was to be inside something else)
the Queen's ERS (Elizabeth II Regina of the United Kingdom: ER)
sailors
MARINERS
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OriginalGriff wrote: "singular" to get rid of the "S" I needed to make it work as a sentence
How about "Single moms ..." would that have been a good enough hint? As in being alone and only one.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I don't get Queer's -> ERS translation.
It would have to be ER's and then the clue would have to end in sailor's.
I thought I've read somewhere that case has to match also. Can't remember where though! 
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Manfred R. Bihy wrote: I don't get Queer's -> ERS translation.
I don't think ER would be happy about it either! 
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Sorry about that, it's Queen's of course!
Still, wouldn't CCC rules mandate you use the genitive then?
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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You probably haven't seen, but others may well have, and I am sure Pompey will be one, and this should give him an excellent place to comment on last night, the news of Paolo Wanchope, manager of Costa Rica Under 23's football team, having a fight with someone at the end of a game the other day and then resigning.
He made his name playing for Derby County under Jim Smith (The Bald Eagle) around twenty years ago. In the dressing room after a game Wanchope had a punch up with Smith after Smith called him a prima donna. Wanchope thought that the term was questioning his sexuality.
Most of that makes very little sense to me and I wrote it, good luck to anyone trying to read it.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Mothers singular MA ("singular" to get rid of the "S" I needed to make it work as a sentence)
Except you didn't cos you missed out the essential possessive apostrophe! Such shenanigans weren't even necessary. "Mother's direction" in crosswordese can mean "Mother has" with the 'has' serving merely as a linking word.
direction R (For "Right")
Right isn't a direction, it's a side! N, E, W, S etc. are directions because they're constants; right, left, starboard, port etc. are sides because they depend entirely upon alignment.
contains IN (To make you think something was to be inside something else)
That makes no sense at all! There is no world in which IN and CONTAINS are even remotely synonymous! CONTAINED maybe but definitely not CONTAINS!
Like your solver I leapt to the answer in a few seconds but I'm afraid it was entirely in spite of rather than because of the clue! Just saying!
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What about the case of Queen's?
Wouldn't it have to be ER's then?
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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No. By convention, crossword answers are assumed to be in the form which they are written into the grid, ie. in capitals and without punctuation.
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Member 9082365 wrote: Right isn't a direction
So you can't "Go right", or "Head right" then?
Member 9082365 wrote: There is no world in which IN and CONTAINS are even remotely synonymous!
in
ɪn
preposition
1.
expressing the situation of something that is or appears to be enclosed or surrounded by something else. Possibly CONTAINED would have been better, but it's close enough!
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OriginalGriff wrote: So you can't "Go right", or "Head right" then?
Yes you can but only relative to your present position. If someone asks you what direction Sheffield is in you don't say 'right' (at least I hope you don't)!
OriginalGriff wrote: Possibly CONTAINED would have been better, but it's close enough!
No ... really ... it's not!!!
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Well I had only partial answer
Mother = MA
Direction = R
Contains = IN
But the MARINERS fit the solution, so I jumped the gun as I had to go to a meeting.
cheers,
Super
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super wrote: MARINERS
Please explain it, as I can't get it except
Mothers = Ma.
Is it something like this:
singular direction = RI
contains the Queen's sailors = NERS
As we know the answer already we can take it the way we want 
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Queen's I should imagine is the ERS bit.
Mariners is the sailors.
Mothers singular = MA
Direction = RIN for some reason I don't understand.
RIN[^]
Routing Instruction Note?
Royal Institute of Navigation?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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direction - R
contains - IN
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chriselst wrote: Direction = RIN for some reason I don't understand.
Routing Instruction Note?
Royal Institute of Navigation?
"Return Incident Number" suits the best among all, as it returns incident number they say, here it returns direction, we dunno how but it does return direction
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Suddenly everyone's a critic!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Ok, an easy one.
x==->
And do reply with the solution! 
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Apollo 13?
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