johnnychips
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That’s right! The original clue is deconstructed as, the answer is ‘A Scot. Under which wood?’ And we hear implies sounds like.
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Cryptic clues = station name
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Thanks; but in view of my words about Ascott, quoted post above; and my needing pretty well to have had it spelled-out by you -- I'd feel it not totally honest of me, to bear away the glory. Open floor, please.
Zamracene749
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Ok, I'll take the floor. Sale is open. Here I hear we might get a bird or weasel?
DaleCooper
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Martins Heron
Zamracene749
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Almost! Not what I had in mind though
Zamracene749
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Not Poppleton, but I love the reasoning!
Zamracene749
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Hint- Sale Open.....
Loppylugs
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Loppylugs
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Marton (bird - Martin, weasel - pine marten)
Zamracene749
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Marton is correct, over to you
Loppylugs
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Thank-you. That was a good clue. So good I answered it twice!
Here's an appropriate one:
Scottish folk dance in any possible variation during tonight's Hogmanay.
Loppylugs
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Happy New Year all.
It's nowhere near Scotland everybody.
Loppylugs
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Ok. Don't think of Scottish folk, but of a Scottish folk dance. Insert it in a variated form in any formation.
The station is in southern England.
The station is in southern England.
DaleCooper
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Anerley
Not an attempt at solving anything -- just "remarking in the by-going": am figuring, with some embarrassment; that my tending not to do too well in this game is, in part, because my knowledge of current G.B. national-network passenger station names is not all that it might be. Seeing the answer "Marton" shown above: I was nonplussed -- could think only of one of the intermediate stations on the long-closed Rugby -- Leamington line ! I find that this Marton is on the Esk Valley line, just out of Middlesbrough. New Year resolution for '24...
Loppylugs
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Yes indeed. The Scottish folk dance being a reel inserted in any. Reel could also apply to the movement of a Scotsman after a few too many Drambuies' during Hogmanay! Over to you.
DaleCooper
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RobertsN
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Diss
DaleCooper
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Interesting suggestion but not the answer.
Zamracene749
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Exmouth?
DaleCooper
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Well done, you saw through my deception. Your turn...
Zamracene749
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Thanks
A Spanish dancer might do this?
A Spanish dancer might do this?
RobertsN
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Stoke (Flamengo in english would be stork). P.S. In spanish it's called Flamenco.
You’ve just educated me. I’d always thought it was Flamenco. Never seen/heard the ‘G’. Every days a school day. Thank you sir!
Not engaging in the game here -- just being an irritating linguistic / ornithological pedant and know-all
(and acknowledging that things in Cryptic World, may be free-wheeling); but by my understanding, the Spanish for "stork", is ciguena (can't do the accents on the letters) -- related to the French for the bird, cigogne. Spanish flamenco means -- similar word -- "flamingo": some similarities in appearance between flamingoes and storks, but they are zoologically definitely different critters. (For all I know, things here may be different in colloquial Spanish.)RobertsN
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@Calthrop is actually correct. Flamingoes and storks are frequently used interchangeably in colloquial latin-american spanish though they are different animals.Not engaging in the game here -- just being an irritating linguistic / ornithological pedant and know-all
I honestly learn more from this forum than I ever did at school!Not engaging in the game here -- just being an irritating linguistic / ornithological pedant and know-all
Zamracene749
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Recently in Seville I was sighing inwardly at a loud American tourist going on about seeing the 'flamingo' dancers. A quick google put me in my place!
Anyway, not Stoke.
I should admit that this clue probably passes as more of a pun, so here's a further hint.
Add an acute accent to the end of this Yorkshire station, to get something a Flamenco dancer and their audience may do?
Anyway, not Stoke.
I should admit that this clue probably passes as more of a pun, so here's a further hint.
Add an acute accent to the end of this Yorkshire station, to get something a Flamenco dancer and their audience may do?
Goole? -- "go ole" (am unable to do accents). If this is correct; open floor, please.