Cryptic clues = station name

[plymothian]

Doncaster?

Donc = so in French
aster = anagram or tears.

 

[perryman]

Doncaster?

Donc = so in French
aster = anagram or tears.

Very good, well done.

The 2nd clue workings out were:

Puts on = Don
Puts on a show, with others = cast
Her Majesty = er

The floor is yours

 

[John Griffiths]

Doncaster?

Don = put on ('to don clothing')

Cast - of a show

ER = Her Maj.

Wouldn't 've stood an earthly before the last clue.

 

[John Griffiths]

I really should check I've seen all the replies before posting.

 

[perryman]

I really should check I've seen all the replies before posting.

It's less fun that way.

 

[plymothian]

I hear to make it work, I've got to do this.

 

[Calthrop]

A silly one, just to -- maybe -- get things started: Muncaster Mill (Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway). I "must" -- that word is, I believe, "mun" in the dialect of those parts; "c" -- applied to oneself, for some reason ("cwestion-setter" ?); "aster" -- "has to": do whatever it is, to get the mill working.

 

[plymothian]

Wow, that was a complicated one, but unfortunately not, though you are on the right lines with 'sounds like'.

 

[Karl]

I love trying to work out these clues! I'm lost today

 

[perryman]

I hear to make it work, I've got to do this.

I don't have an answer but trying to get there piece-by-piece: '...make it work' = function, sounds like junction, perhaps?

 

[plymothian]

The answer is one word when you sound out the syllables, you will get a near coherant short sentence.

 

[plymothian]

Well, if you can't figure out how to make it work, take a break. Here's ten pastry treats to help you think.

 

[444045]

Trying to work it out - Take a break - rest maybe, ten pastry treats, vol au vents maybe

No sorry still totally baffled.

 

[perryman]

From the 'ten pastry' reference I think it's Prestatyn but I can't work out the answer from the first set of clues even though I think I know the answer...

 

[Calthrop]

Now that everyone else has performed the toil -- I'm reckoning that if one says "Prestatyn"; it sounds rather like the answer to a query as to how the owner of an appliance makes it work: instruction, "press that in". (My own mind, working solo, would never have come up with that.)

 

[plymothian]

From the 'ten pastry' reference I think it's Prestatyn but I can't work out the answer from the first set of clues even though I think I know the answer...

Now that everyone else has performed the toil -- I'm reckoning that if one says "Prestatyn"; it sounds rather like the answer to a query as to how the owner of an appliance makes it work: instruction, "press that in". (My own mind, working solo, would never have come up with that.)

Yes and yes.

 

[Calthrop]

Should there be any doubt: @perryman should have the floor; as said, I did no work.

 

[perryman]

Should there be any doubt: @perryman should have the floor; as said, I did no work.

Too kind but let's have an open floor (reads: I need to work on some clues).

 

[Calthrop]

With things thus: hopefully, people OK with my using the "open floor", to try:

One might read: way of desiring against which we are admonished, not very far from tragic ship's birthplace.

 

[ls2270]

With things thus: hopefully, people OK with my using the "open floor", to try:

One might read: way of desiring against which we are admonished, not very far from tragic ship's birthplace.

University (Northern Ireland)?

 

[Calthrop]

Right part of the kingdom, wrong station.

 

[444045]

Would it be Belfast after the ship Titanic at all ?

 

[Calthrop]

Folk are on the right track; but the Titanic allusion was just to indicate that the station is in that part of Ulster -- not actually in Belfast city.

 

[plymothian]

Carnalea, as in carnally?

 

[Calthrop]

Carnalea, as in carnally?

Absolutely right. (I suspect that locally it's pronounced "-lay"; but the clue works "in writing" -- "...might read".)

Your floor.

 

[plymothian]

The reason for Clacton but you're a bit far inland.

 

[ls2270]

The reason for Clacton but you're a bit far inland.

Acton Central?

 

[plymothian]

No, not Acton, though it might help if I had not missed out 2 words from the clue.

The reason for going to Clacton but you're a bit far in land.

 

[perryman]

No, not Acton, though it might help if I had not missed out 2 words from the clue.

The reason for going to Clacton but you're a bit far in land.

Commit suicide?

Waterbeach?

 

[plymothian]

Commit suicide?

Waterbeach?

Correct, though I prefer your first answer.