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Cryptic clues = station name
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DaleCooper
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No. it's not Grays. I didn't know that oliage meant that, I didn't even know it was a proper word and was expecting to be accused of a typo.
I thought you were doing a Humpty Dumpty -- the word meant whatever you chose for it to mean. It isn't in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary; but have just found it in the "Urban Dictionary" online: a colloquial word for body hair, "pubic, underarm, leg, arm, and 'occasionally, shortish hair on one's head' ".
DaleCooper
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Hint:
Managed by Northern
Managed by Northern
DaleCooper
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Another hint:
The solution hinges on that one peculiar word but its meaning (or lack thereof) is irrelevant.
Does that help?
The solution hinges on that one peculiar word but its meaning (or lack thereof) is irrelevant.
Does that help?
I haven't given up -- am just continuing, at the present time, to get absolutely nowhere; and personal circumstances right now, not too propitious for quizzes-and-games. I'll keep trying !
DaleCooper
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Another hint:
What is missing from the clue is as important as what is there.
What is missing from the clue is as important as what is there.
DaleCooper
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This should help:
The current station is a few hundred metres from the site of the historically significant original which closed in the middle of last century.
The current station is a few hundred metres from the site of the historically significant original which closed in the middle of last century.
DaleCooper
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Getting warmer.
I can't help feeling that many people on reading the clue for the first time would have thought "Hang on, he's missed something there.".
DaleCooper
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Slightly cooler than your previous guess but still fairly warm.
See if this helps:
This station is the colour of (f)oliage.
DaleCooper
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Which one?
(If you were at this station you would definitely have a leg to stand on.)
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DaleCooper
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No anagram involved. The colour of foliage is leaf green therefore the colour of oliage is Lea Green (LEG).
Your turn...
Believe it or not, I worked it out for myself just before logging on to see this post of yours !
Thanks -- I'll post my question in a shortish while.
Thus doing: Relocating Tayport rink wave far southwards
Hint (hopefully making some kind of sense): a two-word name -- the corresponding "previous-incarnation" station, also two words, used to be a little way away along the rail route concerned: first word the same as in the answer, second word different.
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Seacook
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Tiverton Parkway (anagram).
I found the hint much more cryptic and less enlightening that the original clue.
If I have not posted the next clue by 3.00 pm then the floor will be open.
Seacook
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Kelly the bushranger has his ruling completely reversed
Correct indeed (for "abstruse and unenlightening", you should have seen the next hint I was contemplating posting !)
Walkden? ("Ned " backwards, preceded by k for Kelly, preceded by "law" backwards.)
DaleCooper
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Walsden? ("Ned's law" completely reversed)
Seacook
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Walsden it is. Walkden is close but "his ruling" indicates Ned's law rather than Ned K law.
DaleCooper
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Next clue:
What comes between a pirate and the navy?
What comes between a pirate and the navy?
DaleCooper
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Nay (old fashioned word for "No").
DaleCooper
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Hint:
It also comes between a captain and his ships.
It also comes between a captain and his ships.