Cryptic clues = station name

[John Griffiths]

That's it, well done.

 

[perryman]

Thank you.

Someone else can deal, open floor please.

 

[Calthrop]

On west coast; ingenious fish restaurateur proudly proclaims his latest attraction -- innovative but messed-up: bloater, squid ink, ramen -- he ! ha !

 

[Calthrop]

Obviously, I suspect; but it's an anagram...

 

[John Griffiths]

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[neilmc]

How about:

Birkenhead Hamilton Square?

 

[Calthrop]

Correct ! Your floor.

 

[neilmc]

Jubilee 45735 and its ilk initially billed over here. When? Around the clock tonight!

 

[Calthrop]

Staying on Merseyside -- Rock Ferry ??? -- except for "around the clock tonight" = "rock", I have not the slightest idea why.

 

[neilmc]

Nope, but correct corner of the world. What was the band leader's proper name? This place was too much of a dam problem last year!

 

[Calthrop]

Nope, but correct corner of the world. What was the band leader's proper name? This place was too much of a dam problem last year !

[My bolding] -- I think this is a giveaway: Whaley Bridge?

 

[neilmc]

You have it Calthrop - original clue was to lead you via Comets to W.Haley (Bill Haley) then Bridge (over this)

 

[Calthrop]

Taking it that the floor would have been mine -- you had to, basically, give the answer on a plate... I'll ask for "open floor".

 

[444045]

Me and my partner - he who wrote all the plays !

 

[Calthrop]

Got to start off somewhere -- I have very little hope of this being right; but -- Williamwood? The "William" being of course the all-the-plays-writing Shakespeare; otherwise -- ??? People come up with all sorts of ideas about Shakespeare: including, that he was secretly gay; supposing that were so, maybe his partner was a Mr. Wood? (My favourite Shakespeare theory holds that the works were actually written by Queen Elizabeth I -- who incidentally, was really a man.)

 

[John Griffiths]

One candidate for that was the Earl of Oxford

 

[John Griffiths]

But another prolific playwright, of more modern times, was Ernie Wise, whose stage partner was Eric Morecambe.

 

[444045]

Got to start off somewhere -- I have very little hope of this being right; but -- Williamwood? The "William" being of course the all-the-plays-writing Shakespeare; otherwise -- ??? People come up with all sorts of ideas about Shakespeare: including, that he was secretly gay; supposing that were so, maybe his partner was a Mr. Wood? (My favourite Shakespeare theory holds that the works were actually written by Queen Elizabeth I -- who incidentally, was really a man.)

Sorry not correct - I like your logic though

 

[444045]

One candidate for that was the Earl of Oxford

Sorry not correct -

 

[444045]

But another prolific playwright, of more modern times, was Ernie Wise, whose stage partner was Eric Morecambe.

Well done you are correct sir - Morecambe it is - your turn to bring some sunshine

 

[John Griffiths]

Thank you.

Of that place, on Teesside? No, the Midlands!

 

[Calthrop]

Late rising today -- only just up, brain not properly in gear: mental processes which were far-fetched anyway, were about to lead to my suggesting a station which closed a little over sixty years ago. Rethink needed...

 

[Strat-tastic]

Newcastle.

 

[John Griffiths]

Not Newcastle.

 

[LexyBoy]

Wester Hailes?

Of that place = hail
Side of Tees = es
The Midlands is wester than Teeside (stretching it a bit here!)

 

[John Griffiths]

Very interesting! I like your explanation, but not Wester Hailes. Nor is it in Scotland

 

[John Griffiths]

Though a significant part of the answer does have Scottish connotations.

 

[John Griffiths]

Time for another clue, perhaps.

If you were a fairly important laird or clan chief, you might be called 'The McBiscuit of...'

What that of is, should help.

 

[John Griffiths]

The expression is widely misused, to mean "that kind of thing", to the extent that the OED (which does have a lamentable record of allowing sloppy and incorrect usages) gas accepted it.

 

[John Griffiths]

The earth of the country's garden also gets mixed up here.