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Having looked up a possible answer to 8 out of curiosity, was the writer actually the Poet Laureate? Or rather the XX Laureate.

EDIT: Looking at it again, it is probable that I have got it completely wrong and am confusing someone else with the answer, whoever that is. In other words, ignore my witterings.
 
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Actually, I'm curious now -- puzzled re "XX Laureate": quick Googling thereon, fetches up only stuff about someone called Campbell McGrath, hitherto unknown to me and certainly nothing to do with the cat in question ! Concerning said animal; in fact I've perhaps failed to give the full picture: the character features in two children's novels by this author -- one published before he had become Poet Laureate; the other, a few years later, when he was occupying said position -- if that makes sense !
 
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Calthrop said:
Actually, I'm curious now -- puzzled re "XX Laureate": quick Googling thereon, fetches up only stuff about someone called Campbell McGrath, hitherto unknown to me and certainly nothing to do with the cat in question ! Concerning said animal; in fact I've perhaps failed to give the full picture: the character features in two children's novels by this author -- one published before he had become Poet Laureate; the other, a few years later, when he was occupying said position -- if that makes sense !
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XX was to substitute for another word, which might have given a clue to the identity of the person, if that person had been the correct answer. But as they are not the correct person, please ignore the confusion I have created. And, no, I have never heard of Campbell McGrath either.
 
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341o2 said:
Would no4 be anything to do with Beatrix Potter?
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It certainly would -- names of the character and their partner (commerce-type), are the title of one of her books, about their story. Could you expand thereon?
 
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341o2 said:
The tale of Ginger and Pickles
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Correct -- Ginger the ginger tom-cat, and Pickles the terrier; who run a grocery shop -- and are too kind in the matter of allowing customers credit, so they're always broke.

There remain three to go !
 
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The final three, still outstanding and not-yet-got.

6) I'd thought this one was going to be dead easy ! @MotCO got the film right, but not the character.

7) This'n, a bit obscure -- but I couldn't resist it; as a marvellously mad "un-natural-history" saga (cat is female; mouse and dog, male) which had an uninterrupted run of some thirty years as a newspaper strip cartoon in the USA. Folks, if you were to Google the geographical "pointer" in the original clue (fine by me), that should put you on the right track.

8) This character appears in two novels for children (so far as I'm concerned, great fun for adults too) -- an original, and a sequel -- by the mentioned Poet Laureate chap, on the told-of themes. I gather (second-hand; I know only the books) that the sequel anyway: was in the 1980s, dramatised as a TV series.
 
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No 7 would be Krazy Kat then, with Ignatz the mouse and Officer Pupp as the dog
 
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The picture is got, of end of the road -- two still not identified.

6) In the cartoon film The Aristocats -- film, but not character, correctly named by @MotCO -- our character is Thomas O'Malley's friend Scat Cat, the bandleader: he and his band assist the lovers Thomas and Duchess in their time of trouble.

8) is the black cat Nibbins, character in the childrens' novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, by John Masefield. Nibbins, a reformed witch's-familiar, is the pet of Kay, the young hero of the books: he (Nibbins) is useful in Kay's struggle against the "witching / wizarding" scene, thanks to his inside knowledge of that scene.

Of the six correctly identified -- two each, were got by two participants: @Gloster, and @341o2. To decide who takes the floor next, would these two gentlemen like to sort the matter out between themselves; via a competitive mouse-hunt, or whatever means preferred :smile:?
 
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xotGD said:
Is it the initial letters of the country holding the EU rotating presidency? If so, I'll guess D for Denmark.
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You're right in that they are initials for something, but they are not EU rotating presidents.
 
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MotCO said:
Correct. Please take the floor.

(Actually the next one is T(hursday), but I'lll let you off!)
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Thank you (but being pedantic Tuesday is the 2nd T in your clue).

Anyway here's the new poser, unashamedly a cribbed pub quiz question:-

Which is the odd one out, and why? Graham, John, Terry, Eric and Michael.
 
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A bit of a riddle this one...


Complete this series of numbers: 9 = 4, 21 = 9, 22 = 9, 24 = 10, 8 = 5, 7 = 5, 99 = 10, 100 = 7, 16 =?, 17 =?
 
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16 = 7 and 17 = 9? (Latter is the number of letters in the word relating to the first number or something like that).
 
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Mcr Warrior said:
16 = 7 and 17 = 9? (Latter is the number of letters in the word relating to the first number or something like that).
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Correct! The question setting goes to you although @MotCO was closest with the explanation, nevertheless you got there first, well done.
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Makes sense, but is 100 = 7 a mistake in the question? Or is it literally “hundred” not “one hundred”?
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It is actually, well spotted.
 
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