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Shanah Tovah to you, too.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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And you have to laugh at these computerised systems: the tracking page is saying it's been sent by "Guaranteed 1PM Next Day" delivery, so it should be with me "by 8pm" ...
I don't think Amazon trust the Royal Mail guarantees any more than I do! 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Arrives in 2 packages. Half the unit in each package.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Do Amazon use Royal Mail in your neck of the woods then?
Nearly everything I get from Amazon is delivered by their own drivers. With the exception of some market place sellers who might use Royal Mail for smaller (letterbox sized) items, but I don't use them much.
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Normally it's all Amazon's own drivers, I was surprised to see it coming by Royal Mail. The Amazon drivers visit our little group of houses so often we're all on first name terms with them ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: Guaranteed 1PM Next Day" delivery, so it should be with me "by 8pm" ...
Adjust for timezones. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Heartless marriage => ME
players => CAST
one => I
crazy => (anagram)
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MECASTI (anagram) => SEMATIC == warning of danger (7)
This was my first attempt of creating CCC entirely by self. Pardon me (and share what I missed), if it did not meet any rule of setting CCC.
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You beat us again, looks like I didn't hollow out marriage enough. It was right in front of me. The answer was in my word list again... but I didn't find the solution.
Here are my notepad notes:
Heartless marriage players one crazy warning of danger (7)
[Heartless]
cad
cold
hard
numb
[Heartless marriage] literal
exes
divorce
split
talaq
[Heartless marriage] w. "Heartless" letter selection indicator
mar[-ri]age
k[-no]t
un[-i]on
w[-e]d
[Heartless marriage players] literal
exes
[Players]
team
set
cast
crew
club
pros
[marriage] = juxtaposition indicator?
[one]
one
solo
only
sole
odd?
[crazy] = anagram indicator?
[warning of danger] = definition?
caution
sematic
presage
lookout!
trumpet
whistle?
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Wow! So, this is your systematic scribble on paper?
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Sandeep Mewara wrote: So, this is your systematic scribble on paper?
We didn't have fancy GUI for writing code in the old days. Yes I use notepad to organize my thoughts. I still do it today.
I was writing C/C++ code using text editors such as vim all the way up until around the year ~2000 I don't remember the exact year. I didn't start using Microsoft Windows until sometime around there. I had a few Windows machines but I wasn't writing software for Microsoft yet.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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hats off! 
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So do I notepad++ these days
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Please, tell us more about this magic notepad of yours?
I mean, did you really already have a list of synonyms for "warning of danger"? It seems quite a specific phrase...
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Hmmm,
I use a combination of physical unabridged dictionaries and some online tools.
musefan wrote: It seems quite a specific phrase...
I turn to digital tools when I get stuck solving these cryptic crossword puzzles. Some of them I wrote myself, but these days... the online tools are getting *very* good.
The second entry is here for the definition:
Onelook Reverse Search: Warning Danger[^]
Some additional online tools that I use:
National Puzzlers' League.[^]
https://www.dcode.fr/anagram-generator[^]
I am working in my spare time writing a CCC Solver using the dictionaries provided by the National Puzzlers' League. I don't expect it to be completed for over a year... it's alot of work and I am only working on it in my spare time. I am currently trying to import all of Wiktionary[^] into a SQLite database and that's not even completed yet.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Good luck. Keep us updated on any significant progress.
I have considered making one myself, but I know it will end up getting shelved because of the difficulties in setting up a good source database.
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Yeah,
musefan wrote: I have considered making one myself
enwiktionary is a 6GB uncompressed XML file. Let me know if you need any of the dictionaries, I think I've got all of the legal dictionaries. There are some others... but I would need to pay a licence to get access to them and would not be able to distribute them.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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musefan wrote: list of synonyms for "warning of danger"?
The only "warning of danger" with 7 letters that I could come up with was 'portent' (which was not on @Randor's list), but it didn't help.
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Well done! I was nowhere near that!
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Thanks. Off day for you. I know the feeling - no clue with almost all the CCCs for me.
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I had ME and I, but for players I only thought of SIDE or TEAM. Not that it mattered, as I would never have got that word.
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@Randor had it in his word list. If you give me the phrase and say find related one word - I will struggle.
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Hi All,
In the grand tradition suggested by Mr Vilimos (Nagy!) I have updated my User name.
Hopefully last orders will be soon & I can get back to Work.
(mutter, mutter, Covid)
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Well, 10pm at the latest!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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After which he can crowd into the local off-licence along with every other punter looking for an evening digestive.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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