h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

SPARE and SPACE are obviously wrong, but I think I'm on the right lines...

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spade? spate? I have no idea where they fit in though.

SNAKE – The baby's aS NAKEd as the day it was born. ????

Rooney's passing ability is put in motion. (4)

(Yes, it was SNAKE )

Hardly REPO (pure pot in motion) . . .

No.

I've only come up with things like PIED (I spied put in motion). I don't think that works, does it?

...but it could be REAR (...pure art in motion)?

Rear is correct - now you can set one of these fiendish things!

That twit Cher, having seen ones acre, died to see another (6)

I've worked that one out... but I have no idea how to set these things, so I'l leave it for someone else...

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OK you tell me the answer and I'll set one:

All the results there could bear most instantly with google (8)

All the results could be ar*rived at*...?

Scratch that, not enough letters.

BISHOP

That twitcher, having seen one sacred iBIS HOPed to see another.

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(correct, of course )

So, we're on:

All the results there could bear most instantly with google (8)

I see possibilities for 8-letter words beginning with E, but I can't find an ideal one. Equipped or Escribed maybe...

I was looking for something ending AL.

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Both right.

Got as far as Ibis but tried putting it in the wrong spot (before the i). We'll get used to this . . .