| Exclusive, occult |
The Times Concise |
11 Sep 2025 |
| Puzzling score, tie fixed? (8) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
05 Sep 2025 |
| Coteries (anag)(8) |
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| Coteries ridiculously difficult to understand (8) |
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| Wrongly recites about love in secret (8) |
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| Coteries intended only for the initiated (8) |
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| Meant only for the initiated |
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| Cite Rose at work being abstruse (8) |
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| Unknown to most people |
Premier Sunday |
18 May 2025 |
| Arcane |
Premier Sunday |
04 May 2025 |
| Coteries (anag) (8) |
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| Like much tax law or ancient philosophy |
New York Times |
20 Apr 2025 |
| Like obscure knowledge |
USA Today |
05 Apr 2025 |
| Understood by a few |
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| Coteries terribly mysterious (8) |
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| Secret keeping boy on toes perhaps (8) |
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| Understood only by a small number of people (8) |
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| Understood by only a few; coteries (anag.) |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
28 Jan 2025 |
| Recites around circle and gets mysterious (8) |
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| Private & mysterious (8) |
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| Cryptic |
The Sun Two Speed |
01 Dec 2024 |
| Secret store with ice crushed |
The Sun Two Speed |
01 Dec 2024 |
| Broken toes the man finds difficult to understand |
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| Obscure, mysterious (8) |
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| Secret; cryptic |
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| Arcane |
The Times Concise |
02 Nov 2024 |
| Coteries developed just for the initiated (8) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
29 Oct 2024 |
| Descriptive of the rites of coteries perhaps (8) |
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| So I erect it in a most mysterious manner |
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| Broken toes a man finds difficult to understand (8) |
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| Mysterious coteries broken up (8) |
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| Intended for the initiated only |
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| Mysterious European drunkard near Morecambe maybe |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
02 Jul 2024 |
| Core site for redevelopment is secret |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
27 Jun 2024 |
| Coteries strange and hard to understand (8) |
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| Is Crete to have nothing mysterious? (8) |
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| Not known by many |
Newsday |
17 May 2024 |
| Coteries possibly specialised (8) |
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| Different coteries cater to the eccentric (8) |
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| For an initiated minority (8) |
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| Mysterious coteries getting broken up (8) |
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| Obscure, arcane |
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| Abstruse |
The Times Concise |
03 Mar 2024 |
| Abstruse European getting escort I suspect (8) |
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| Secret coteries perhaps (8) |
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| Taught to a select few |
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| Mysterious, mysterious coteries (8) |
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| Mysterious |
Thomas Joseph |
01 Feb 2024 |
| Only for the initiated (8) |
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| Obscure |
The Guardian Quick |
19 Dec 2023 |
| Cite rose variety that's obscure |
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| Secret, mysterious sect, that is - or might be (8) |
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| Enigmatic sweetheart gets drunk with Ernie's other half |
The Guardian Quiptic |
20 Nov 2023 |
| Like a niche interest |
Universal |
16 Oct 2023 |
| Understood by a select few |
LA Times Daily |
29 Aug 2023 |
| Secret coteries dismantled |
The Telegraph Toughie |
18 Aug 2023 |
| Secret ice store is in pieces |
The Guardian Quiptic |
17 Jul 2023 |
| Knowable to only a small group |
Universal |
30 Mar 2023 |
| Shrouded in mystery |
Premier Sunday |
26 Mar 2023 |
| Fancy stereo discs occasionally used for the select few |
The Guardian Cryptic |
17 Mar 2023 |
| Requiring rare knowledge |
New York Times |
21 Nov 2022 |
| Arcane |
USA Today |
09 Nov 2022 |
| Abstruse Euro-sceptic cup running over |
The Guardian Cryptic |
27 Oct 2022 |
| Abstruse |
The Guardian Quick |
20 Sep 2022 |
| Understood by few |
The Times Concise |
16 Sep 2022 |
| Far from popular CEO tries to mingle |
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| Rarefied ground or site retained by English clubs |
The Telegraph Toughie |
21 Jul 2022 |
| Arcane |
Premier Sunday |
03 Jul 2022 |
| Secret ice store melted |
Irish Times Crosaire |
10 May 2022 |
| As coteries might be represented? |
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| Abstruse, arcane |
Irish Times Simplex |
09 May 2022 |
| Ruined ice store is little-known |
The Times Cryptic |
04 May 2022 |
| Mysterious |
The Guardian Quick |
15 Mar 2022 |
| Abstruse |
Premier Sunday |
06 Mar 2022 |
| Not clear to most |
Newsday |
06 Feb 2022 |
| English drunk at Morecambe understood by few |
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| Understandable only by an inner circle |
Irish Times Simplex |
14 Jan 2022 |
| Recites problem about old stuff that's puzzling to most |
Irish Times Crosaire |
05 Jan 2022 |
| Private quarters, awfully erotic |
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| Recites novel about love - stuff that's puzzling to most |
Irish Times Crosaire |
07 Dec 2021 |
| Recites novel about love - stuff that's puzzling to most |
Irish Times Crosaire |
14 Oct 2021 |
| Mysterious |
Eugene Sheffer |
10 Sep 2021 |
| Inscrutable European Community should welcome reformed Tories |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
08 Sep 2021 |
| Obscure boozer in east Morecambe? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
10 Aug 2021 |
| Occult |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 May 2021 |
| Secret drinker last to rise in Morecambe? |
The Sun Two Speed |
29 May 2021 |
| Breaking toe, cries inside |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
01 Apr 2021 |
| Obscure Byzantine coteries |
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| Private sector that is failing |
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| Arcane secret I spread around Ohio |
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| Recites novel about love stuff that's puzzling to most |
Irish Times Crosaire |
02 Feb 2021 |
| Recites adaptation about old stuff that's puzzling to most |
Irish Times Crosaire |
07 Jan 2021 |
| Mysterious |
The Telegraph Quick |
30 Dec 2020 |
| Circle in compound on island, circle initially difficult to understand |
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| Drunk in middle of week? Lush endlessly mysterious |
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| Abstruse, arcane |
Irish Times Simplex |
22 Sep 2020 |
| Secret drinker comes to earth in Morecambe? |
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| Obscure English drunkard at Morecambe? |
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| Recites misprint about old secret |
Irish Times Crosaire |
20 Jul 2020 |
| Little known mystic? |
Irish Times Crosaire |
22 May 2020 |
| ... secret drinker seen in almost sinister clubs |
The Telegraph Toughie |
09 Apr 2020 |
| Difficult to understand, man behind English boozer |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
23 Mar 2020 |
| Mysterious |
Premier Sunday |
23 Feb 2020 |
| Secret coteries disbanded |
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| Understandable by only an inner circle |
Irish Times Simplex |
10 Feb 2020 |
| Understood by a select few |
LA Times Daily |
27 Jan 2020 |
| Understood by a select few |
The Washington Post |
27 Jan 2020 |
| Arcane Eurosceptic's cup runneth over |
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| Way out there |
New York Times |
27 Oct 2019 |
| Way out there |
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| Son is involved in corrupt coterie and that's difficult to understand |
Irish Times Crosaire |
10 Oct 2019 |
| Recites novel about old cryptic type |
Irish Times Crosaire |
19 Sep 2019 |
| Cryptic couple of notes hidden in Morecambe |
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| Obscure English Tories upset with Commons at first |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
31 Jul 2019 |
| Secret; taught to few |
The Times Concise |
26 Jul 2019 |
| Not many people will get this in hospital after breaking toes getting intensive care |
Irish Times Crosaire |
10 Jun 2019 |
| At the back of the lounge, drunk is a guy understood by very few |
Irish Times Crosaire |
04 Jun 2019 |
| Mysterious store detective thrown out -- not vetted unfortunately |
The Telegraph Toughie |
14 Mar 2019 |
| Secret ring in compound in command |
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| Secret ring in compound in command |
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| Strange score, tie baffling |
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| Hard to grasp drunk in east Morecambe |
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| Obscure drunkard in largely creepy club |
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| Arcane |
The Telegraph Quick |
06 Oct 2018 |
| Mysterious drunk seen in East Morecambe? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
24 Sep 2018 |
| Understood by few |
The Times Concise |
11 Sep 2018 |
| Obscure place, not quiet, in mostly strange clubs |
The Telegraph Toughie |
10 May 2018 |
| Understood by few |
Newsday |
19 Apr 2018 |
| Mysterious sea-scouts regularly spotted west of Morecambe |
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| French art, exceptionally erotic and mysterious |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
16 Feb 2018 |
| Abstruse |
The Telegraph Quick |
03 Feb 2018 |
| Mysterious English boozer to the north of Morecambe |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
17 Jan 2018 |
| So in sci-fi film, boy is mysterious |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
01 Jan 2018 |
| Secret English drunkard, top woman in charge |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
29 Dec 2017 |
| Recites novel about old secret |
Irish Times Crosaire |
15 Nov 2017 |
| Inscrutable Tories assembled in the City |
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| It's not widely known English drunk with hot temper retires from college |
Irish Times Crosaire |
04 Oct 2017 |
| Turns up about to go to school in old transport - only those with specialised knowledge can get it |
Irish Times Crosaire |
13 Jul 2017 |
| Hidden books man found on tablets |
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| Obscure boozer between centre of Cleveleys and Morecambe? |
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| English boozer used by man full of mystery |
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| Mysterious drugs to upset Morecambe |
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| Secret or inner, primarily, put another way |
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| See to problem with old police force - it explains why not everyone will get this |
Irish Times Crosaire |
05 Jan 2017 |
| Secret drinker last to rise in Morecambe? |
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| Abstruse |
The Guardian Speedy |
27 Nov 2016 |
| Understood by few |
Family Time |
18 Sep 2016 |
| Known only to few |
Newsday |
13 Sep 2016 |
| Not for the masses |
LA Times Daily |
04 Sep 2016 |
| Secret drinker reaches end of line in Morecambe? |
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| Touching toes, exercising -- man's secret |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Jul 2016 |
| Inscrutable Tories assembled in the city |
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| See trio playing Chopin's prelude in secret |
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| Hidden fabric put on card held up |
The Telegraph Toughie |
19 Apr 2016 |
| Secret coteries disbanded |
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| Obscure coteries abroad |
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| Mysterious coteries assembled |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
09 Apr 2016 |
| Obscure English boozer near Morecambe |
The Times Cryptic |
29 Feb 2016 |
| Secret tippler frequenting endlessly spooky clubs |
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| Not for the masses |
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| Obscure score with time (after month gone) composed |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
29 Dec 2015 |
| Secret I struggled to keep, old secret |
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| Highly specialised |
The Times Concise |
27 Nov 2015 |
| Coteries developed just for the initiated |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Oct 2015 |
| Secret |
The Sun Two Speed |
25 Oct 2015 |
| Obscure |
Premier Sunday |
30 Aug 2015 |
| See to problem with old police force - it explains why not everyone will get this? |
Irish Times Crosaire |
24 Aug 2015 |
| Mysterious man clutching note found by well |
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| Abstruse |
LA Times Daily |
16 Apr 2015 |
| Arcane |
Universal |
03 Feb 2015 |
| Intended for the few |
The Times Concise |
02 Feb 2015 |
| Abstruse |
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| Obscure |
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| Abstruse |
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| Arcane |
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| Inscrutable |
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| Mysterious courtesies unkindly denied us |
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| Store ice produced in secret |
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| Mystic recites impromptu about love |
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| Mystic so engrossed in extra- terrestrial at Morecambe |
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| Mysterious coteries formed |
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| Like most philosophy dissertations |
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| I set core cryptic! |
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| Arcane |
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| Only for certain tastes |
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| Difficult to understand |
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| Shrouded in mystery |
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| Abstruse |
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| Shrouded in mystery |
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| Understood by a select few |
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| For initiates only |
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| Just for a few |
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| Obscure |
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| Difficult to understand |
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| Enigmatic |
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| Understood by few |
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| Rarefied |
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| Not widely known |
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| Not widely known |
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| Not for the masses |
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| Known by few |
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| Understood by few |
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| Indecipherable |
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| Not clear to most |
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| Intended for a select few |
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| Abstruse |
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| Not for everyone |
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| Like trivia |
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| Not for everyone |
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| Like trivia |
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| Abstruse |
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| Shrouded in mystery |
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| Incomprehensible |
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| Abstruse |
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| Limited-appeal |
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| Arcane |
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| Way-out |
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| Abstruse |
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| Intended for a select few |
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| Puzzling |
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| Secret |
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| Abstruse |
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| Understood by few |
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| Arcane |
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| Arcane |
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| Recondite |
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| Limited to a small circle |
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| Beyond the ken of most people |
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| For the cognoscenti |
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| Like the in-group |
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| Known only to a few |
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| Abstruse. |
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| Intended for a chosen few. |
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| Secret. |
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| Confidential. |
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| Understood by a select few. |
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| Puzzling |
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| Occult. |
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| Understood only by the select few. |
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| Taught only to the initiated. |
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| Understood by only a chosen few. |
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| Limited to a small circle. |
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| Belonging to the select few. |
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| Mystic. |
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| Recondite. |
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