Cryptic clues = station name

[Gutfright]

Correct!

Beauly is lrulh, lrulh Beauly

(Beauty is truth, truth beauty)

Your floor...

 

[DaleCooper]

Next clue:

Mr Noel Thatcher RA redesigned this station, again!

 

[Seacook]

Next clue:

Mr Noel Thatcher RA redesigned this station, again!

Rotherhan Central

 

[DaleCooper]

Rotherhan Central

Yes Rotherhan Central - again!

 

[Seacook]

Yes Rotherhan Central - again!

Open floor, as I won't be logging in for a few days.

 

[FQ]

Should be fairly easy.

Harry's drinking establishment

 

[DasLunatic]

Potters Bar. We've had similar ones before, IIRC.

 

[FQ]

Yep. Didn't realise that there have been ones like that before!

Your go.

 

[DasLunatic]

Where Santa's skull will go when confused

 

[DaleCooper]

I'm struggling with this one but I'll have a go with:

St Annes-on-Sea?

Perhaps it will prompt a hint.

 

[DasLunatic]

Alas, it is not St. Annes.

The skull is a synonym.

 

[Gutfright]

Rauceby?

There is a slight chance that Rauceby isn't the correct answer, in which case may we have another clue?

 

[DasLunatic]

It is not Rauceby. Skull is not part of the anagram, either.

 

[DaleCooper]

Talsarnau?

 

[DasLunatic]

No. Perhaps a slight addition may help.

Where a bovine Santa's skull will go when confused

 

[DaleCooper]

Causeland?

 

[DasLunatic]

Not Causeway.

Another addition, maybe?
When skinned, a bovine Santa's skull will go when confused

 

[Zamracene749]

Leatherhead?

 

[DasLunatic]

Leatherhead?

We have a winner!

 

[Gutfright]

I'm still not 100% sure how Leatherhead comes from the original clue. What am I missing?

 

[DaleCooper]

I'm still not 100% sure how Leatherhead comes from the original clue. What am I missing?

There were four versions of the clue:

Where a confused Santa will go
Where Santa's skull will go when confused
Where a bovine Santa's skull will go when confused
When skinned, a bovine Santa's skull will go when confused

...none of which logically lead to Leatherhead, as far as I can see. WTF has Santa got to do with it?
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It is not Rauceby. Skull is not part of the anagram, either.

...and where is the anagram?

 

[Zamracene749]

Yeas, I couldn't make it fit with the earlier clue versions either! We need a walk through DasLunatic

I'll leave the floor open again.

 

[DasLunatic]

My trail of thought...

Confused Santa - anagram of Santa = Satan
Where does Satan go? Hell
Synonym of 'skull' = head
You can also go 'hell for leather', so the answer is Leatherhead.

This one should be easier...
East London's pretender

 

[DaleCooper]

East Ham?

 

[Gutfright]

"East London's pretender" could be a cockney actor who shares a name with a station, so I made a list of possible candidates...

Michael Preston
Ray WinStone
Barbara Windsor & Eton Central/ Riverside
Honor Oak Park Blackman
Angela LansBury Bolton Street or Angela LansBury Interchange or Angela LansBury St Edmunds
Warren Street Mitchell
Sandwell and Dudley Moore
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Stretching things even further, The Royal could be (Prince Charles) Chaplin?

 

[DaleCooper]

"East London's pretender" could be a cockney actor who shares a name with a station, so I made a list of possible candidates...

Michael Preston
Ray WinStone
Barbara Windsor & Eton Central/ Riverside
Honor Oak Park Blackman
Angela LansBury Bolton Street or Angela LansBury Interchange or Angela LansBury St Edmunds
Warren Street Mitchell
Sandwell and Dudley Moore
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Stretching things even further, The Royal could be (Prince Charles) Chaplin?

Or Stratford Johns if east refers to the station rather than the actor.

Or John Leyton

 

[DasLunatic]

It is, none of those listed. The pretend refers to a service it purports to have.

 

[DaleCooper]

Stratford International?

 

[DasLunatic]

It is Stratford International, yes. Your floor, Sir.

 

[DaleCooper]

Next clue:

This is where radium, vanadium and iodine are used to create an elementary particle.