Cryptic clues = station name

[Seacook]

Parts of Lakes Superior and Ontario

How about Canada Water?

 

[Meridian richard]

Canada Water is the correct answer

 

[Seacook]

Roughly crams a blackbird into this station

 

[Meridian richard]

Craven Arms

 

[Seacook]

Craven Arms

Spot on.

 

[Meridian richard]

a dog on a fashion accessory

 

[Welshman]

Leeds?

 

[Meridian richard]

I can see your thinking but not correct

The fashion accessory is a handbag

 

[Meridian richard]

Ask the females

Which handbags have a dog attached

 

[Seacook]

Ask the females

Which handbags have a dog attached

My extensive in-depth two-second internet research suggests Radley.

I think more along the lines of Worthing or Bracknell when handbags are involved.

 

[Meridian richard]

This is obviously not a forum filled with handbag users

Radley it is. (Quite expensive apparently)

 

[Seacook]

This is obviously not a forum filled with handbag users

Radley it is. (Quite expensive apparently)

Leading yeomanry or royal knights

 

[Meridian richard]

York.

 

[Seacook]

York.

That was quick! Was it too simple?

 

[Meridian richard]

Worn out with a German version of myself

 

[Seacook]

Worn out with a German version of myself

Norwich?

 

[Meridian richard]

Norwich is spot on

 

[Seacook]

Station no tube-wreck wiped out

 

[cjp]

Station no tube-wreck wiped out

Stanmore ?

 

[Seacook]

Stanmore ?

Sorry, no.

 

[Welshman]

Moorgate?

 

[Seacook]

Moorgate?

Nope.

Actually, I can't see how the clue could suggest Stanmore or Moorgate.

 

[Welshman]

Nope.

Actually, I can't see how the clue could suggest Stanmore or Moorgate.

Well, obviously my thinking was wrong, but if you are interested in how I got there, I remembered the Moorgate Tube Disaster on the Northern Line in 1975, when 43 people perished, and then the BR Moorgate, closed, not because of a tube wreck but because of the Thameslink work.

So this Moorgate is the station not wiped-out by a tube wreck.

So a bit sombre, and I look forward to seeing the correct answer.

 

[Seacook]

Well, obviously my thinking was wrong, but if you are interested in how I got there, I remembered the Moorgate Tube Disaster on the Northern Line in 1975, when 43 people perished, and then the BR Moorgate, closed, not because of a tube wreck but because of the Thameslink work.

So this Moorgate is the station not wiped-out by a tube wreck.

So a bit sombre, and I look forward to seeing the correct answer.

I see. You are taking the clue entirely too literally. It is cryptic and intended to misdirect while the correct interpretation points directly to how you arrive at the answer.

The answer is not a tube station.

 

[cjp]

Nope.

Actually, I can't see how the clue could suggest Stanmore or Moorgate.

Station no tube-wreck wiped out
sta =station
n =no
and I could only think of one station (Stanmore) that started stan hence the question mark

 

[Seacook]

Station no tube-wreck wiped out
sta =station
n =no
and I could only think of one station (Stanmore) that started stan hence the question mark

As a further hint, the word station is a definition of the answer, included to produce a sentence that makes some sort of sense.

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Berwick-upon-Tweed.

(Wee Burton Pedwick...)

 

[Seacook]

Berwick-upon-Tweed.

(Wee Burton Pedwick...)

Hurrah! Out was the anagram indicator.

I came up with this while on an East Coast train travelling through Berwick-upon-Tweed.

 

[D841 Roebuck]

Tidily put away the unknown?

 

[Seacook]

Tidily put away the unknown?

I'm getting nowhere with this one. 'Tidily put away' could indicate something like 'stow' and 'unknown' could be X but the best match I could find is Felixstowe, but I can't see where FELI could come from.

I could, of course, be failing to recognise the clue type.

I think a hint might be in order.