This may get censored by the the Lord High Executioner - but here goes:
Has any dedicated Times reader managed to complete the Crossword in the facsimile VE Day Times? I may have, but 20 ac. puzzles me - the obvious answer doesn't seem to imply "author", and my entry for 2 dn. is a guess.
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Off topic! The Times 8 May 1945
by Bernard Stay » Fri May 06, 2005 12:41 pm
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by Guest » Sun May 15, 2005 2:46 pm
Possum
Clues as follows:-
(20ac.) Puritan at a loss for a joke turns author (4): - i - a. Perhaps 'Rita'. (?)
(2 dn.) It takes the eye (7): s - a - g - e. I guess 'spangle'. (?)
The main problem with this oldie is the large number of rather obscure quoations (Shakespeare, Kipling, Keats) and topical references now unused.
Clues as follows:-
(20ac.) Puritan at a loss for a joke turns author (4): - i - a. Perhaps 'Rita'. (?)
(2 dn.) It takes the eye (7): s - a - g - e. I guess 'spangle'. (?)
The main problem with this oldie is the large number of rather obscure quoations (Shakespeare, Kipling, Keats) and topical references now unused.
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by possum » Sun May 15, 2005 5:50 pm
Hmmm, I see what you mean, Bernard. Never heard of a writer called Rita (maybe that's the pun), and cannot think of any others that would fit, let alone solve the rest of the clue.
As for the second clue, I cannot think of anything else that would fit, and yet it's not satisfactory.
It was fun trying anyway.
Maybe someone else will be able to help.
As for the second clue, I cannot think of anything else that would fit, and yet it's not satisfactory.
It was fun trying anyway.
Maybe someone else will be able to help.
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by lunababy_moonchild » Sun May 15, 2005 9:32 pm
Rita Sackville-West was an author. As is Rita Dove. Rita is what you get when you take pun out of puritan (but you knew that............).
As for the other clue : how do you know that the g is right? I'm thinking it could be sparkle.
Not that I've ever been any good at cross words.
Lun
As for the other clue : how do you know that the g is right? I'm thinking it could be sparkle.
Not that I've ever been any good at cross words.
Lun
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by Bernard Stay » Mon May 16, 2005 8:02 am
Thanks folks.
l-m
Yes the 'g' is firm: part of 'bigamy' [Clue: 'Crime committed by an outsize female (6)']
I think it was Vita Sackville West not Rita(!).
l-m
Yes the 'g' is firm: part of 'bigamy' [Clue: 'Crime committed by an outsize female (6)']
I think it was Vita Sackville West not Rita(!).
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by lunababy_moonchild » Mon May 16, 2005 1:36 pm
Bernard, I checked that on the internet, there is a Rita Sackville-West too. She wrote Joan D'arc, apparently, well, according to this : http://textbook-authors.abebooks.co.uk/Author/479131/Sackville+West+Rita.html.
Anyway..........
Hope you get it solved
Luna
Anyway..........
Hope you get it solved
Luna
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by Bernard Stay » Mon May 16, 2005 2:47 pm
Luna
Probably time to wrap this topic up, even if almost as frustrating as an unsolved Su Doku - but just for the record: the book referred to is "Saint Joan of Arc" by Vita Sackville-West (1936).
Not everything you read on the internet is true!
Probably time to wrap this topic up, even if almost as frustrating as an unsolved Su Doku - but just for the record: the book referred to is "Saint Joan of Arc" by Vita Sackville-West (1936).
Not everything you read on the internet is true!
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