johnnychips
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Cryptic clues = station name
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@backontrack can we please have an answer/hint!?
Seeing as there's been no response from @backontrack for over a week, let's move things along:
A well known Feline taking on an equestrian role.
A well known Feline taking on an equestrian role.
Well done, I'm impressed, I thought it was quite hard when I set it!
Blundellsands & Crosby?
I'm not entirely sure that Bing Crosby counts as a charitable healer, and I've no idea what the 1st bit is eluding to!
For anyone else guessing, this is helpful: http://allthestations.co.uk/updates/
I'm not entirely sure that Bing Crosby counts as a charitable healer, and I've no idea what the 1st bit is eluding to!
For anyone else guessing, this is helpful: http://allthestations.co.uk/updates/
It isn't Blundellsands & Crosby; and indeed old Bing, for all his religion, doesn't seem to have been an outstandingly sweet-and-nice person... however, the operative station is, for sure, there on your list !
The first bit: it's significant that they plead erratically...
"Dunkeld" can be derived from "Drunks Plead", although I've no idea what to do with the rest of the letters. I'm going out completely on a limb here, but I'll say:
Dunkeld and Birnam
Dunkeld and Birnam
Not Dunkeld & Birnam. Is my clue really that unfairly obscure-and-abstruse? I can't help feeling that in Cryptic clues = station name half a year ago, it would have been solved in no time flat.
The imaginary scenario is of a philanthropic doctor who gives alms to the poor. Some recipients of his charity are boozy types, who ask him to give to them -- out of the goodness of his heart -- alcoholic refreshment also. They ask him "erratically" (tip-off word, that an anagram is adjacent). The anagram is of "fund gin & bitters too, MD".
The imaginary scenario is of a philanthropic doctor who gives alms to the poor. Some recipients of his charity are boozy types, who ask him to give to them -- out of the goodness of his heart -- alcoholic refreshment also. They ask him "erratically" (tip-off word, that an anagram is adjacent). The anagram is of "fund gin & bitters too, MD".
I think my stratagem is reckoned "legit" in cryptic-clue circles -- so long as the "indicator" word is next to the anagram bit -- whether before or after -- that's OK: the pleading drunks were indeed there, in the hope of throwing people off the scent.
neilmc, I prescribe for you a congratulatory double scotch. Your floor.
neilmc, I prescribe for you a congratulatory double scotch. Your floor.
Indeed, yours..