Cryptic clues = station name

[Calthrop]

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 : it seems that no matter how many hints you give -- I anyway, remain completely baffled by this one. Having the above, of a couple of days ago, in mind: thinking on the "double-barrelled-with-an-'of'-in-between -- Jabberwock of Dong, or whatever" place-name convention: I've just been right through the alphabetical list of UK stations. The only station names featuring this "of" usage, appear to be in Scotland; where, you inform us, the answer station is not. (This "of" thing tends to be -- as you allude to -- something particularly Scottish.) I am, alas, getting absolutely nowhere...

 

[John Griffiths]

When I say the expression is misused, it is in the sense that people might say, for example, "railway enthusiasts, trainspotters and people of that...".

The alternative clue made (I hope) clearer: turn over earth at Canterbury, and end up in the Midlands.

 

[Calthrop]

Getting faint inklings, but still not seeing clearly, and striking out randomly -- Kenilworth ??

 

[duncanp]

How about Hartlebury, between Kidderminster and Droitwich Spa?

Part of the name is a station in Teeside (Hartlepool)

 

[John Griffiths]

Getting faint inklings, but still not seeing clearly, and striking out randomly -- Kenilworth ??

Not Kenilworth, I'm afraid, but the words Kenilworth and killings both contain useful letters.

How about Hartlebury, between Kidderminster and Droitwich Spa?

Part of the name is a station in Teeside (Hartlepool)

You're using a good approach, but on the wrong side of the Tees.

 

[Calthrop]

Can't be Killingworth of Stephensonian fame -- that station is no longer open...

 

[John Griffiths]

Indeed... and the station name doesn't' t begin with K

 

[LexyBoy]

Ilkeston

 

[John Griffiths]

Well done, LexyBoy, Ilkeston is correct. Your floor.

"Of that ilk" means "of that place": 'Sir Iain Montcrieffe of that Ilk' means he was the Laird of Montcrieffe. Eston is a district of Redcar & Cleveland, on Teesside. Hence... Ilkeston.

It is also an anagram of 'Kent soil', hence the rather ham-fisted second clue.

 

[LexyBoy]

Phew!

Time for something a bit easier:
Wings fallen off plane - sugar!

 

[Calthrop]

Daft one, just to perhaps get things going -- how about Cantley ? If a plane's wings fall off, the craft will at the very least, cant alarmingly; and at Cantley there's a big sugar factory.

 

[LexyBoy]

Not Cantley

 

[Calthrop]

Didn't think it could be. Almost equally random -- Lancaster? Name of a WWII-era type of plane -- and caster sugar ...

 

[LexyBoy]

Not random at all - take the wings off of p/lan/e plus caster gives you Lancaster plus a nod to the famous bomber.

Over to you!

 

[Calthrop]

Thanks -- would never have systematically figured that one out (fault thereby mine, not yours !).


We hear lisping hunter from Newfoundland maybe, name his favourite quarry

 

[neilmc]

Theale?

 

[Calthrop]

Thpot-on -- your turn on the ithe-floe (preferably you'll kill 'em before you thkin 'em)...

 

[neilmc]

Warning to women - getting in hasty alliances may lead you to prison!

 

[neilmc]

Think, where might a woman end up in prison? There aren't all that many possible answers!

 

[Calthrop]

Holloway Road (London Underground)? (Lady gets into marital relationship [alliance] in a hasty, ill-considered, and thus hollow way -- with the worst possible consequences; and Holloway Prison is of course for female inmates) -- ??

 

[neilmc]

Nope, think further North!

 

[johnnychips]

Styal . It’s in the clue.

 

[neilmc]

Correct, Johnny - "haSTY ALliances"

 

[johnnychips]

Thanks Neil!

War criminal at the French station.

 

[perryman]

Hessle?

 

[johnnychips]

Blimey, that must be a record!

War Criminal = (Rudolph) Hess
the French = le

Congrats, and all yours. You are the Usain Bolt of the Cryptic Clues thread!

 

[perryman]

Thank you. Taking my marks...

The start and finish of a very short non-stop Essex journey.


Edit: I've added the words very short to the clue, as I think it's relevant.

 

[444045]

Would that be a `Fleet` -ing visit at all ?

 

[perryman]

It’s not Fleet.

 

[perryman]

Would that be a `Fleet` -ing visit at all ?

It’s not Fleet.

Additionally, the final answer isn't speed/time/distance related.