Cryptic clues = station name

[D6130]

Gosh darn knew that would be easy…all I could think of.
Your floor!

Thanks. I'm sure you'll be able to come up with some more challenging clues soon. Here's another fairly easy one:

Aspirate corroded Teutonic mountain in the forest

 

[Loppylugs]

We are what we are - a few Cryptos who rattle in our cages. It would be nice if we could enlarge our Circle to include more participants. Some Quiz forums seem to have lots of contributors - sadly not ours. Perhaps cryptic crosswords are not the "in thing" any more? Does anyone have any ideas how we might attract new members to our Club?

It just goes to prove who the brainy ones are on this forum. As long as we geniuses enjoy trying to work out the clues I don't see a problem.

 

[Neo9320]

It just goes to prove who the brainy ones are on this forum. As long as we geniuses enjoy trying to work out the clues I don't see a problem.

I think opening it up, as was originally suggested, should be considered. I’ll throw my hat in and say until recently I’d had no idea of cryptic clues.

I bow down to each and every one of you on here, however, educate the next generation, otherwise it’ll be a boring game.

(P.S love the game, keep up the great work!)

 

[Loppylugs]

I did make my comments with a bit of a giggle, but I very much enjoyed the Mornington Crescent game until some plonker wrecked it by trying to change the whole idea of what the game was based on. If you need to change the format then I think a new thread should be started, but with the old one continuing. Perhaps a purely anagrammatical theme would attract more.

What about differing age levels? I think oldies (I include myself in there) can come on the forum at any time and answer the clues or have more time to work things out. Give the younger members (probably at work all day) a separate thread.

 

[Caboose Class]

Apologies if I was misunderstood. I am not suggesting for one minute changing the format of this Forum, I was merely seeking ways of attracting a few more contributors.

 

[D6130]

Following all the banter about changing - or not changing - the format of the forum, does anyone have any ideas about my latest clue?

 

[Caboose Class]

Following all the banter about changing - or not changing - the format of the forum, does anyone have any ideas about my latest clue?

Teutonic mountain = berg? Corroded berg = e&g&b&r in "something". That's as far as I've got, I'm afraid.

 

[DaleCooper]

Following all the banter about changing - or not changing - the format of the forum, does anyone have any ideas about my latest clue?

The only thing I can come up with is:

Heaton Chapel?

 

[D6130]

Heaton Chapel?

No....sorry! Think about the 'in the forest' part of the clue.

 

[Caboose Class]

No....sorry! Think about the 'in the forest' part of the clue.

It's not ORE is it? If so, God knows why!

 

[Calthrop]

Aspirate corroded Teutonic mountain in the forest

All I can think of is Rustenberg; which is in South Africa, so that's no use ...


Caboose Class said:

We are what we are -- a few Cryptos who rattle in our cages. It would be nice if we could enlarge our Circle to include more participants. Some Quiz forums seem to have lots of contributors -- sadly not ours. Perhaps cryptic crosswords are not the "in thing" any more? Does anyone have any idea how we might attract new members to our Club?

It just goes to prove who the brainy ones are on this forum. As long as we geniuses enjoy trying to work out the clues I don't see a problem.

I incline to the opinion that cryptic clues -- in crosswords or elsewhere -- have likely always been something of a minority taste: one needs to be endowed with a particular kind of mental "kink" (some would go so far as to say "perversion") by which one both has the knack for this particular kind of "brain acrobatics", and the ability to enjoy it. I've come across very many people, excellently equipped in the grey-matter department, who've expressed re cryptic-clue stuff, both a lack of aptitude / ability for such doings, and a total lack of interest in / lack of appeal experienced by them, concerning same. (My brother -- a very bright guy -- is one. He has tried cryptic crosswords, and ended up in a state of great annoyance with them; most of the time he simply did not "get" the workings of the clues; when he did -- or had them explained to him -- he considered the whole business irritatingly contrived and foolish.) I have a strong feeling that attempted recruiting for potential "cryptic" enthusiasts, would not be very fruitful: this thing just isn't for the majority of people.


And Caboose Class said:

I am not suggesting for one minute changing the format of this Forum...


Something which I have floated before, re this particular quiz: an envisaged change, which would be one of expansion, not of restriction or retrenchment. As at present: it is current passenger stations in the UK (including Northern Ireland, that being part of the UK) which are valid. I'd like to suggest casting the net a little wider, to include current passenger stations in the Republic of Ireland, and the Isle of Man. I for one would much appreciate the (fairly modest) increasing of scope, which such a move would give.

 

[Strat-tastic]

All I can think of is Rustenberg; which is in South Africa, so that's no use ...


Caboose Class said:

We are what we are -- a few Cryptos who rattle in our cages. It would be nice if we could enlarge our Circle to include more participants. Some Quiz forums seem to have lots of contributors -- sadly not ours. Perhaps cryptic crosswords are not the "in thing" any more? Does anyone have any idea how we might attract new members to our Club?


I incline to the opinion that cryptic clues -- in crosswords or elsewhere -- have likely always been something of a minority taste: one needs to be endowed with a particular kind of mental "kink" (some would go so far as to say "perversion") by which one both has the knack for this particular kind of "brain acrobatics", and the ability to enjoy it. I've come across very many people, excellently equipped in the grey-matter department, who've expressed re cryptic-clue stuff, both a lack of aptitude / ability for such doings, and a total lack of interest in / lack of appeal experienced by them, concerning same. (My brother -- a very bright guy -- is one. He has tried cryptic crosswords, and ended up in a state of great annoyance with them; most of the time he simply did not "get" the workings of the clues; when he did -- or had them explained to him -- he considered the whole business irritatingly contrived and foolish.) I have a strong feeling that attempted recruiting for potential "cryptic" enthusiasts, would not be very fruitful: this thing just isn't for the majority of people.


And Caboose Class said:

I am not suggesting for one minute changing the format of this Forum...


Something which I have floated before, re this particular quiz: an envisaged change, which would be one of expansion, not of restriction or retrenchment. As at present: it is current passenger stations in the UK (including Northern Ireland, that being part of the UK) which are valid. I'd like to suggest casting the net a little wider, to include current passenger stations in the Republic of Ireland, and the Isle of Man. I for one would much appreciate the (fairly modest) increasing of scope, which such a move would give.

There are so many stations that I've not heard of in UK, so expanding the range wider would make it even harder for me.

 

[Loppylugs]

No....sorry! Think about the 'in the forest' part of the clue.

I'll try Hall-I-Th-Wood

 

[D6130]

I'm afraid not....but I can sort of see where you're coming from.

Another clue: There used to be a three-way junction close to this station....but now it's only two.

 

[Loppylugs]

Not sure of the area but let's go for Henley-in-Arden

 

[D6130]

Not sure of the area but let's go for Henley-in-Arden

Not that one....wrong forest, I'm afraid!

 

[RobertsN]

Just as a "lucky dip" in my area, may I go for Wooton Wawen?

 

[D6130]

Just as a "lucky dip" in my area, may I go for Wooton Wawen?

Not that one either!

Next clue: The Teutonic mountain may need fixing.

 

[Calthrop]

Next clue: The Teutonic mountain may need fixing.

Frantic thrashing-around department: Brockenhurst?? -- the Brocken mountain in Germany, with its famous Spectre: re which latter, it could perhaps use "fixing" = exorcising? -- and "hurst": "wooded hill"" in the old language. Aspirate / corroded -- I have no idea.

 

[D6130]

Frantic thrashing-around department: Brockenhurst?? -- the Brocken mountain in Germany, with its famous Spectre: re which latter, it could perhaps use "fixing" = exorcising? -- and "hurst": "wooded hill"" in the old language. Aspirate / corroded -- I have no idea.

Spot on!

Brocken = Mountain in Germany (i.e. Teutonic)
Aspirate= h
Corroded= rust (anagram of 'urst')

.....and of course Brockenhurst is situated in the forest - the New Forest.

Well done!

The mountaintop is yours:

 

[Calthrop]

@D6130: thank you ! I feel that I got the answer by muddling through, rather than by methodical crypto-cracking; but anyway ...

Here's one, suggested by the works of J.K. Rowling. I hope that the lady will forgive me for inventing a new Wizarding-World "species": ethereal spirits known as "Airri".

Touching on a totally non-wizardly mode of transport; to the hero, admonitory "mixed message" -- Lackwit Potter ! Trap nine Airri, son !

 

[Caboose Class]

@D6130: thank you ! I feel that I got the answer by muddling through, rather than by methodical crypto-cracking; but anyway ...

Here's one, suggested by the works of J.K. Rowling. I hope that the lady will forgive me for inventing a new Wizarding-World "species": ethereal spirits known as "Airri".

Touching on a totally non-wizardly mode of transport; to the hero, admonitory "mixed message" -- Lackwit Potter ! Trap nine Airri, son !

Prestwick International Airport?

 

[Calthrop]

@Caboose Class: that's it ! Ten points for whichever Hogwarts House is yours; and it's your floor.

 

[Caboose Class]

My clue today takes the form of a joke:- Have you heard the one about the Japanese girl who lost her G-string? Station name please and feel free to add an appropriate punch line!

 

[Calthrop]

Esher? ([G]eisha) -- we are reliably informed that those ladies are perfectly chaste; they are about charming and cultured companionship, not anything carnal: so the unfortunate young woman would have felt truly and genuinely mortified at her misfortune.

 

[Caboose Class]

Esher? ([G]eisha) -- we are reliably informed that those ladies are perfectly chaste; they are about charming and cultured companionship, not anything carnal: so the unfortunate young woman would have felt truly and genuinely mortified at her misfortune.

Well done - I see you're fast on the draw today!

 

[Calthrop]

My word -- I seldom do as well as this: Japan's gods must be smiling on me, or something ...

A thespian pair from centuries in the quite-recent past -- a generation-and-a-bit apart -- one (male), famous particularly for Shakespearean roles, and with an also-famous sister "in the same racket"; the other, often reckoned the first-ever female railway enthusiast; would both have felt nomenclatorially at home at this station.

 

[DaleCooper]

My word -- I seldom do as well as this: Japan's gods must be smiling on me, or something ...

A thespian pair from centuries in the quite-recent past -- a generation-and-a-bit apart -- one (male), famous particularly for Shakespearean roles, and with an also-famous sister "in the same racket"; the other, often reckoned the first-ever female railway enthusiast; would both have felt nomenclatorially at home at this station.

Kemble?

 

[Calthrop]

Kemble it is: people concerned, are John Philip Kemble (1757 -- 1823) -- his mentioned sister, Sarah Siddons; and Frances "Fanny" Kemble (member of same theatrical family), 1809 -- 1893; who persuaded George Stephenson to let her have a ride on the Rocket, pre- L & M opening; and considered the newfangled machine to be really sweet.

Your floor.

 

[DaleCooper]

Kemble it is: people concerned, are John Philip Kemble (1757 -- 1823) -- his mentioned sister, Sarah Siddons; and Frances "Fanny" Kemble (member of same theatrical family), 1809 -- 1893; who persuaded George Stephenson to let her have a ride on the Rocket, pre- L & M opening; and considered the newfangled machine to be really sweet.

Your floor.

Thank you.

Next clue (pardon my brevity):

A station noted for its quirky Latin charm.