Comments on: Guardian 24127/Rover – holi shaman! http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/12/guardian-24127rover-%e2%80%93-holi-shaman/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 25 May 2013 19:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: petebiddlecombe http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/12/guardian-24127rover-%e2%80%93-holi-shaman/#comment-3016 petebiddlecombe Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:58:46 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/12/guardian-24127rover-%e2%80%93-holi-shaman/#comment-3016 Lavengro: older Grauniad solvers will recall a setter of this name c. 25 years ago – no idea who he or she was.

]]> By: Stan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/12/guardian-24127rover-%e2%80%93-holi-shaman/#comment-3010 Stan Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:52:06 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/12/guardian-24127rover-%e2%80%93-holi-shaman/#comment-3010 Managed to guestimate the willow reference from Yeats’ “Sally Gardens” – left me with a nice warm smug feeling even after I gave up on finishing.

I’m sure “to kettle” is a verb (i.e to cook in a kettle), which makes 20d a simple (but unsatisfying) double definition – “it’s put on” and “to get warm”

]]> By: ilancaron http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/12/guardian-24127rover-%e2%80%93-holi-shaman/#comment-3006 ilancaron Fri, 13 Jul 2007 05:21:49 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/12/guardian-24127rover-%e2%80%93-holi-shaman/#comment-3006 3d: ref. Yankee Doodle dandy

]]> By: radchenko http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/12/guardian-24127rover-%e2%80%93-holi-shaman/#comment-3004 radchenko Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:36:33 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/12/guardian-24127rover-%e2%80%93-holi-shaman/#comment-3004 Yes, but you do put the a kettle on, and in doing so it does, or you make it, get warm… But I agree, it’s nearly a good clue but doesn’t quite work.

I didn’t much care for 25ac and especially not 11ac. For the latter, once you have the crossing letters it is sort of obvious, but the reference is so obscure. Completely unlike 21ac, which was quite clever.

Any explanation for 3dn? I have MACARONI but it is a wild stab in the dark.

Still after the Paston Letters and now Lovengro, it is quite an education this week…

]]> By: mark http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/12/guardian-24127rover-%e2%80%93-holi-shaman/#comment-2999 mark Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:18:27 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/12/guardian-24127rover-%e2%80%93-holi-shaman/#comment-2999 22A and 20D – I agree with ilancaron. Furthermore I don’t put my kettle on to get me or it warm – don’t like tepid tea.

]]> By: Mick Hodgkin http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/12/guardian-24127rover-%e2%80%93-holi-shaman/#comment-2993 Mick Hodgkin Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:40:33 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/12/guardian-24127rover-%e2%80%93-holi-shaman/#comment-2993 Bottleneck – one of half a dozen clues I failed to get here – is rather good, and plays on two slightly different meanings of nerve. If you have bottle, you’re brave, but if you’ve got neck (often ‘brass neck’) you’re being cheeky – it’s more like “you’ve got a bloody nerve, you have!” Like chutzpah, perhaps? Or does that carry more positive connotations?

]]> By: Shirley http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/12/guardian-24127rover-%e2%80%93-holi-shaman/#comment-2990 Shirley Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:28:43 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/12/guardian-24127rover-%e2%80%93-holi-shaman/#comment-2990 1 Dn Sandwich is a links Golf Course in Kent where the Open is played from time to time.
14 Dn – Norma is an opera by Bellini, and another name for a hill is a tor

]]> By: conradcork http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/12/guardian-24127rover-%e2%80%93-holi-shaman/#comment-2989 conradcork Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:24:26 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/12/guardian-24127rover-%e2%80%93-holi-shaman/#comment-2989 The king’s retainers are the people who are holding (retaining) him.

]]> By: neildubya http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/12/guardian-24127rover-%e2%80%93-holi-shaman/#comment-2986 neildubya Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:44:29 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/12/guardian-24127rover-%e2%80%93-holi-shaman/#comment-2986 Mark – as if by magic, it’s just appeared.

]]> By: mark http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/12/guardian-24127rover-%e2%80%93-holi-shaman/#comment-2985 mark Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:08:45 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/12/guardian-24127rover-%e2%80%93-holi-shaman/#comment-2985 what happened to solutions to no 24126 by Brummie?

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