Cryptic clues = station name

[Seacook]

Could it be Carluke?
Vehicle = car
bears no resemblance = unlike
mistake in middle= remove i and n from unlike (and shuffle)
A bit desperate because the last part doesn't really man that and may be wishful thinking on my part.

 

[plymothian]

Thinking on the right lines now

 

[hmp455]

It's probably Carlisle

 

[Seacook]

How about Cardiff Central?

This has a vehicle, part of 'differs' and central for 'in the middle'.

 

[plymothian]

How about Cardiff Central?

This has a vehicle, part of 'differs' and central for 'in the middle'.

Correct

Car-diff(ers) Central

 

[Seacook]

And the next:

One of the Horses of Wisdom?

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No submissions so far. Try thinking about what the last word might refer to.

 

[Bedpan]

Impossible without a hint, and easy with one! There I was wondering if it had something to do with Harry Potter and unsuccessfully trying to research along that track!!

As it can't be anything other than Normans Bay, I'll submit my next clue which is "2241 lbs". Fairly easy, I hope, as I won't be around a lot next week.

 

[Seacook]

Impossible without a hint, and easy with one! There I was wondering if it had something to do with Harry Potter and unsuccessfully trying to research along that track!!

As it can't be anything other than Normans Bay, I'll submit my next clue which is "2241 lbs". Fairly easy, I hope, as I won't be around a lot next week.

Normans Bay it is. And yours must be Overton - 2240 lbs would be Longton. Having one's education using Imperial measures is sometimes useful.

I'll start thinking about the next one.

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Here it is:

Madelyn screwed fifty blokes in 24 hours

 

[Bedpan]

Excellent clue. I was wondering what Madelyn had to do with it until I realised she was an anagram!

Dalmeny


Next clue......Dear fools past fifty lose the point
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Excellent clue. I was wondering what Madelyn had to do with it until I realised she was an anagram!

Dalmeny


Next clue......Dear fools past fifty lose the point

Time for a hint - there is also a summit here.

I won't be around now till the weekend so no further hint toll then, although hopefully somebody will get the right answer in the meantime.
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Back home now, and no attempts at the answer yet, so I'll simplify the clue ....


"Dear fool past 50"

 

[Seacook]

Excellent clue. I was wondering what Madelyn had to do with it until I realised she was an anagram!

Dalmeny


Next clue......Dear fools past fifty lose the point
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Time for a hint - there is also a summit here.

I won't be around now till the weekend so no further hint toll then, although hopefully somebody will get the right answer in the meantime.
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Back home now, and no attempts at the answer yet, so I'll simplify the clue ....


"Dear fool past 50"

I have to confess that I am getting nowhere with this. It looks as if it might be an anagram of DEARFOOL + L, but, if so, I can't find it. I also considered DARLING for dear but that just led to DARLINGTON which doesn't fit. I failed to get anywhere with CON for fool either.

Anyone else have any ideas?

 

[Bedpan]

Initially (the use of this word is not a hint), I thought that it was a bit on the easy side, and so I beefed it up by putting the fools in the plural and then taking away the "s" with "lose the point".

You're on the right track, but there's no anagram involved.

 

[Seacook]

Initially (the use of this word is not a hint), I thought that it was a bit on the easy side, and so I beefed it up by putting the fools in the plural and then taking away the "s" with "lose the point".

You're on the right track, but there's no anagram involved.

Oh, it's Sugar Loaf, isn't it? I could kick myself. It was a good clue. I was considering using "sweetbread" for it myself. I really should have done better.

And the next clue is:

Review of 'Ulysses' and 'Dubliners' by Reynolds

 

[Bedpan]

Oddly, a new thread under the name "Sugar Loaf" was started a couple of days after I posted the clue.

Your clue looks difficult! Is the station in Ireland by any chance, or is the Irish link between Ulysses and Dubliners with George Reynolds the Irish born mathematician a co-incidence?

 

[Seacook]

Oddly, a new thread under the name "Sugar Loaf" was started a couple of days after I posted the clue.

Your clue looks difficult! Is the station in Ireland by any chance, or is the Irish link between Ulysses and Dubliners with George Reynolds the Irish born mathematician a co-incidence?

No, the station is in Great Britain, and George Reynolds is not relevant (especially as I have never heard of him).

I hope the clue looks more difficult than it actually is!

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Nothing more yet. If you just think about what 'Dubliners' and 'Ulysses' have in common, the answer should be very easy with the rest of the clue confirming it.

 

[Bedpan]

Well, I've thought of James Street but its a bit tenuous and I can't see that the rest of the clue has any link to it.

 

[Seacook]

Well, I've thought of James Street but its a bit tenuous and I can't see that the rest of the clue has any link to it.

No, it's not James Street. There should be no doubt that it is correct if you find it.

 

[LexyBoy]

Burton Joyce?

 

[Seacook]

Burton Joyce?

Absolutely!

Burt (Reynolds) on (James) Joyce

Your turn, LexyBoy

 

[LexyBoy]

The clue wasn't too hard, the station's fairly obscure though!

* puts thinking cap on, clue coming soon *
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OK, best I can do at the moment:

He passes Loughborough partly despondent

 

[Seacook]

I thibk this is where the friendly bombs fall:

He passes Loughborough partly despondent

and, presumably, a reference to the Slough of Despond from Pilgrim's Progress.

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Now thinking...

 

[LexyBoy]

Too easy evidently Correct of course.

 

[Seacook]

The next one is

Pike failed to get a medal, we hear

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No takers so far. The clue could , perhaps, be improved by changing it to Pike just failed to get a medal, we hear.

 

[Bedpan]

Not being conversant with the mountains of the chain of Seir or Edom, (how on earth do you know all these things?) it took me an age to get this one, but it has to be Horsforth.

Next clue, and I hope its not too easy, More than 500 monks here?

 

[Seacook]

Not being conversant with the mountains of the chain of Seir or Edom, (how on earth do you know all these things?) it took me an age to get this one, but it has to be Horsforth.

Next clue, and I hope its not too easy, More than 500 monks here?

I don't know these things! I can't fault your research and I will happily accept Horsforth as correct, although the answer I was looking for was Garforth (gar=pike, the fish).

I think yours is Dover Priory.

The next one is something completely different: a printer's devilry clue, which requires an explanation. It is the opposite of a hidden word clue, such as the recent one for Slough - the clue has had the answer removed and may have had some of the letters re-arranged to form new words (they are still in the same order though).

red signals anger

 

[Bedpan]

I don't know these things! I can't fault your research and I will happily accept Horsforth as correct, although the answer I was looking for was Garforth (gar=pike, the fish).

I must admit having had to resort to dictionary.com on this one. The link with Carn was tenuous to say the least so then I went on to Hor, whicvh threw up

Bible Dictionary

Hor definition

mountain. (1.) One of the mountains of the chain of Seir or Edom, on the confines of Idumea (Num. 20:22-29; 33:37). It was one of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness (33:37), which they reached in the circuitous route they were obliged to take because the Edomites refused them a passage through their territory. It was during the encampment here that Aaron died (Num. 33:37-41). (See AARON.) The Israelites passed this mountain several times in their wanderings. It bears the modern name of Jebel Harun, and is the highest and most conspicious of the whole range. It stands about midway between the Dead Sea and the Elanitic gulf. It has two summits, in the hallow between which it is supposed that Aaron died. Others, however, suppose that this mountain is the modern Jebel Madurah, on the opposite, i.e., the western, side of the Arabah. (2.) One of the marks of the northern boundary of Palestine (Num. 34:7, 8). Nowhere else mentioned. Perhaps it is one of the peaks of Lebanon.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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I must admit that I never got as far as gar, which is undoubtably a better answer.

Dover Priory is right, I'll nowe have to put my thinking cap on for your one.

 

[LexyBoy]

red signals anger

Are you sticking with a south coast theme with Ford?

 

[Seacook]

Are you sticking with a south coast theme with Ford?

Quite correct. Over to you for the next one.

 

[LexyBoy]

Nice to have a change, though I won't try and think up a clue along the same lines on the spot!

Here's another easy one:
In the middle, dim light surrounds excited gas

 

[Seacook]

Nice to have a change, though I won't try and think up a clue along the same lines on the spot!

Here's another easy one:
In the middle, dim light surrounds excited gas

Glasgow Central

Now try this:

What King Stephen might be said to have done

 

[Eagle]

Fort Matilda

Prospect for he who cowers