Cryptic clues = station name

[Calthrop]

Sorry, guys -- it's not Guide Bridge either. (The dog-owner isn't blind -- their problem is, rather, poverty.) And, the last couple of tries have been a bit "adrift" geographically.

 

[Calthrop]

Amplifying the latter part of the clue a bit: ...hosted by improvident aged maternal dog owner with vacant storage facility.

 

[plymothian]

Old Mother Hubbard - Hubberts Bridge?

 

[Calthrop]

That's right -- as I put it, "sounds a bit like".

Your turn to entertain infant audiences with daft rhymes...

 

[plymothian]

Daft rhymes? I don't know any, but I know a station can be in anyplace. Sail around the world and see.

 

[Calthrop]

Guessing rather randomly -- re a bod who sailed around the world, or at least all over it -- James Cook (sometimes called James Cook University Hospital)??

 

[plymothian]

Unfortunately not.

Further clue: A pelican lays there.

 

[Calthrop]

This suggests to me the terminus of a West-Country branch which, alas, closed in 1963; therefore, so much for that one !

 

[Trackman]

Paisley Canal?

 

[plymothian]

Correct.

Anagram of [Anyplace Sail] and [A pelican lays].

The next clue would have been:

If you're Looking for Linda, you might find her here.

 

[Trackman]

Open Floor

 

[Calthrop]

Former five-way junction, to which popularly attributed: leonine arrival / juvenile ovine departure.

 

[perryman]

First time poster, please be kind...

I think it's Caterham: leonine arrival: 'cat' (first part of the name), juvenile ovine departure: 'ram' (at the end of the name albeit without the letter 'h'). But I can't make any reference to the rest of the clue...

 

[perryman]

Actually, scrap that first post...

 

[Calthrop]

@perryman -- you're being too modest. In your post which you wished to retract -- answer isn't Caterham; but re zoological stuff, you were right in broad terms (genera / families) with both; but more narrowly (species / adults-young-and-gender matters), not right. (Hope that what just typed, makes some kind of sense .) I'd say: you're basically on the right track. The clue has to do with an age-old bit of supposed folk wisdom...

 

[plymothian]

March.

 

[Calthrop]

Correct -- the month that allegedly comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.

Your floor.

 

[perryman]

@Calthrop

Thanks for the clarification. If I said 'Thornton Junction', would that make any sense? And I'll only bother explaining my workings out if I'm correct, which is highly unlikely...

 

[perryman]

Ah. Scrap that, again.

 

[Calthrop]

@Calthrop

Thanks for the clarification. If I said 'Thornton Junction', would that make any sense? And I'll only bother explaining my workings out if I'm correct, which is highly unlikely...

Please -- irrespective of being beaten to it, or right / or / wrong; I'd be fascinated to know how you got Thornton Junction from my clue. (I love far-fetched and convoluted answer attempts -- the more so, the better .)

 

[plymothian]

The Welshman's doing ok, colloquially.

 

[Calthrop]

Taffs Well?

 

[perryman]

Tenuous and some...

Former 'five-way junction' could of course apply to either a current junction station with disused line(s), or to a junction station that is now disused entirely, hence Thornton Junction. The station had 4 lines running from it, with a very tenuous fifth if one counts the little line that now links the current Thornton station with the line to Kirkcaldy... The story about Androcles and the Lion now becomes part of the guesswork, as of course the lion has a thorn removed from its paw by the good shepherd, which made me think of your reference to 'leonine arrival' (plausible) and 'ovine departure' (not very plausible but essentially, I was clutching at straws at this point).

 

[Calthrop]

Tenuous and some...

Former 'five-way junction' could of course apply to either a current junction station with disused line(s), or to a junction station that is now disused entirely, hence Thornton Junction. The station had 4 lines running from it, with a very tenuous fifth if one counts the little line that now links the current Thornton station with the line to Kirkcaldy... The story about Androcles and the Lion now becomes part of the guesswork, as of course the lion has a thorn removed from its paw by the good shepherd, which made me think of your reference to 'leonine arrival' (plausible) and 'ovine departure' (not very plausible but essentially, I was clutching at straws at this point).

That's brilliant -- maybe not right, and demented (in the best possible way) -- but brilliant. There seems to be something about this game, concerning thorns, and people getting put off the scent. There was a clue on here a few months ago: answer was clearly an anagram of "northern mimosa": I got it into my head that part of the answer had to be "thorn", and got prolongedly and frustratingly nowhere. Turned out that the answer was Moreton-in-Marsh: nothing thorny about it at all !

 

[plymothian]

Taffs Well?

Correct!

 

[Calthrop]

Correct!

So my floor, I take it.

Diagnosing alcoholic, violent person who's disturbed: O'Grady loves ale, war.

 

[perryman]

So my floor, I take it.

Diagnosing alcoholic, violent person who's disturbed: O'Grady loves ale, war.

Wallasey Grove Road. I only got it by the anagram though, and not the cryptic.

 

[Calthrop]

Wallasey Grove Road. I only got it by the anagram though, and not the cryptic.

At all events, well done -- it was in fact, "anagram and anagram only": by the general usages of this game, permissible and often done.

The floor is yours !

 

[perryman]

Thank you and here we go:

Initially, where both Foreign & Commonwealth Office and CIA are located. But to start, 100 in old times, locally. The final part: Bricktop for real: his final part.

 

[Calthrop]

Initially, where both Foreign & Commonwealth Office and CIA are located. But to start, 100 in old times, locally. The final part: Bricktop for real: his final part.

That's not a clue, it's an essay ! (No, I'd reckon it fine -- anything goes, in this game...) Am cudgelling brains over it -- so far, without result.