Comments on: Independent 6473/Merlin

By: Mick Hodgkin

Mick Hodgkin — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:37:22 +0000

I agree – Yellow Brick Road was wizard!

By: Richard Heald

Richard Heald — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:55:28 +0000

Lovely puzzle, containing at least two contenders for ‘Clue of the week’ in the shape of the SCARLETT JOHANSSON one and the terrific YELLOW BRICK ROAD ‘& lit.’.

By: neildubya

neildubya — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:54:24 +0000

You’re right – seems fair enough. Really must get a copy of Chambers for the office…

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:50:20 +0000

The def part of clue is “Name often found in night club”. Chambers full entry is – in abundance, to one’s heart’s content; used in names of nightclubs etc.

All of this I learned for the first time today, but it does seem to add up.

It’s not mentioned in Concise OED, the other dict I have now.

By: neildubya

neildubya — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:50:22 +0000

Nope – never heard of that. I didn’t really make this clear in my blog but what I didn’t understand was why Merlin refers to it as a “name” – why is A GO-GO a name? Or is he using that more to make the clue read a bit better?

By: ilancaron

ilancaron — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:52:54 +0000

never heard of whisky a go go? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_a_Go_Go maybe it’s just an american thing…

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:39:29 +0000

Some pleasing, clever, material here. Not a habitué myself, but Chambers says A GOGO appears in titles of night clubs. NOTE BOOK was good too because it gave the idea of not e-book. Re ALL-SEATER, that was excellent – not with standing (“being split up”). I’ve seen the idea before, but not as well done as this.