johnnychips
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Rhoose?
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Cryptic clues = station name
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DaleCooper
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That's a brilliant answer and the only fault I can find is that the full name is "Rhoose Cardiff International Airport". Your thinking is spot on and you're very near to getting the right answer.
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DaleCooper
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That's correct, your turn...
You have to feel sorry for johnnychips, his was such a good answer that I was tempted to give it to him.
johnnychips
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I'll survive! Bring on the next clue!
Hint: this station used to be a junction -- its name pointed at by the clue, is relevant to this circumstance.
Two days-plus, and not so much as a nibble. OK -- the answer is "Alnmouth for Alnwick" (anagram). Open floor.
Seacook
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Since the two days were a weekend, your announcement strikes me as premature - today could easily be the first opportunity to see the clue following a weekend break.
DaleCooper
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That's a bit harsh and implies that most people visit the Quizzes & Games forum only when they are at work. Surely the upright and responsible citizens who populate this forum would not waste their employers time in that way.
The "weekend" factor as mentioned by Seacook, just didn't occur to me (I'm retired anyway; tend to forget about the Mon -- Fri chain gang). Employment ethics aside; I'll try and have said factor in mind in the future.
Anyhow -- it's open floor.
DaleCooper
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Here's one for those slaving over a hot keyboard:
Venue of a function for five hundred.
Venue of a function for five hundred.
To get something rolling, rather than thinking I'm likely to be right -- Alresford?? (Colchester -- Clacton / Walton line, or Mid-Hants): "venue of a function", so -- popular function, al[l] places probably res[erved] well in advance; for; D [500 in Roman numerals].
DaleCooper
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Some of your thinking is spot on; on the other hand some of it is far too convoluted. It's up to you to work out which is which.
DaleCooper
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DaleCooper
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I'll go further:
It wouldn't be a sin to go by car to get the right answer.
It wouldn't be a sin to go by car to get the right answer.
DaleCooper
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Not that either, it is a NR station managed by London Midland.
...and you wouldn't go here for a tan.
DaleCooper
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Aw,I had lots more puns...
(you wouldn't go here for a tan) 'cos it's in the Midlands
You might find it by triangulation
... but you've spoiled my fun by getting the correct answer, your turn...
For those who don't get it "Cos" is the abbreviation for the trigonometric function "cosine".
Ah, you mathematical buggers -- on a good day, I can add two and two twice over, and get four both times (just kidding
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RJ21
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Bury St Edmunds?
RJ21
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Here's one, probably quite easy, opening monarch.
DaleCooper
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Dorking ?
RJ21
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Like I said, an easy one, yes it was Dorking.