Cryptic clues = station name

[lxfe_mxtterz]

And, behold! The entrance has risen.

Uphall?

Perhaps...
Risen = Up
Entrance = Hall (way) - usually found near the entrance of a building?

 

[Esker-pades]

Uphall?

Perhaps...
Risen = Up
Entrance = Hall (way) - usually found near the entrance of a building?

Exactly!

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

Exactly!

Fantastic! That definitely took me quite a bit of time to figure out.

Here's the next one:

What if the Derbyshire town situated 16 miles southeast of Manchester did not possess a structure found in one of the words in its name? If you happen to accompany this question by this question: should auld acquaintance be forgot? (•••) You're likely to get a plethora of sharp-pointed opinions.

I do apologise if this is a bit long and tedious. I'm not all that great at creating these 'cryptic clues'.

Good luck.

 

[MargaretNoodle]

Just a guess bassed on the derbyshire town maybe being Whaley Bridge...
Langwith-Whaley Thorns?
Open floor if correct.

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

Just a guess bassed on the derbyshire town maybe being Whaley Bridge...
Langwith-Whaley Thorns?
Open floor if correct.

Well done! That certainly didn't last long - I should've made it harder, haha.

Here's the clarifications, if you're interested:



Derbyshire town = Whaley (Bridge)

Accompany = With

Should auld acquaintance be forgot? = Lyrics from Auld Lang Syne hence the (•••) colour coding.

Sharp-pointed = Thorns



Unjumble the four words and you get Langwith-Whaley Thorns!

 

[Calthrop]

As it's "open floor" --

Dr. Seuss's inflatable-occupying jumbo jumbles seed ball

 

[neilmc]

I THINK it's one near me, Horton-in Ribblesdale

Horton = star of Dr Seuss story
RIB = Rigid Inflatable Boat (needed the internet to suggest that)
blesdale = anagram of "seed ball"

 

[Calthrop]

neilmc -- spot-on ! Your floor.

 

[neilmc]

OK:

The late Ms Victoria
The late Mr Dawson
The late President Gerald

 

[GusB]

Victoria Wood, Les Dawson and Gerald Ford - Woodlesford

Open floor if correct.

 

[neilmc]

Too easy! Yep you're right Gus, so open floor it is.

 

[Calthrop]

Station -- not of Great Britain's National Rail -- whose name reflects popular romantic perception of the land-mass which it's on.

 

[neilmc]

Is there a railway station named Belle Isle? (The Middleton Railway runs near Belle Isle in Leeds, much nearer than it runs to Middleton in fact!).

 

[Calthrop]

Belle Isle station or not, I wot not; in any case -- respectfully, I'm afraid you're definitely "cold" here.

 

[neilmc]

Greenisland in Northern Ireland?

 

[Calthrop]

Correct ! Your floor.

 

[neilmc]

Half a county are on the lookout for alternative revolutionary rail movement

 

[neilmc]

This isn't as hard as it looks. Basically there are TWO clues to the same answer:

Half a county are on the lookout

for alternative:

Revolutionary rail movement

 

[Calthrop]

So many wretched counties (moan moan, whinge whinge) -- I'm trying !

 

[Zamracene749]

Che-shunt or Ches-hunt?

 

[neilmc]

beermaddavep, you got it spot on.

Ches = half of Cheshire
hunt = look for

OR

Che (Guevara) = revolutionary
shunt = rail movement

Your try!

 

[Zamracene749]

The Spanish holding a race within the south East...

 

[Calthrop]

Seascale?

 

[Zamracene749]

Not Seascale...

 

[GusB]

If the clue was The Spanish holding a race within a south East town I'd have suggested Margate (regata with an extra M).

 

[Zamracene749]

Not Margate...

 

[Calthrop]

Slaithwaite?

 

[Zamracene749]

No, not Slaithwaite. It is in Yorkshire though..

 

[Calthrop]

Elsecar?

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

Doncaster?

Perhaps...
"A Spanish title prefixed to a male forename" (according to Google) > Don
A translation of "race" in Spanish > Casta (Caster)

Although I don't see how the South East comes into that.