Comments on: Beelzebub 1162 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/15/beelzebub-1162/ Never knowingly undersolved. Tue, 21 May 2013 15:37:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Dormouse http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/15/beelzebub-1162/#comment-196034 Dormouse Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:18:12 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=45343#comment-196034 I thought I vaguely knew the sweet, but couldn’t spell it, and it’s not in Chambers. I did find “jelab” which is given as an alternative spelling of “djellaba” which sent me off searching the definition of that, but that’s a type of cloak, and that spelling got me thinking of “Djelibeybi”, which is a place in Pratchett, and, of course, connected with another type of sweet.

In the end I got enough crossing letters that it could be only one spelling from the anagram and I googled it.

]]> By: Conrad Cork http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/15/beelzebub-1162/#comment-196017 Conrad Cork Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:20:14 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=45343#comment-196017 Stymied at the end because I know the Indian sweet as jelabi. Transliterations have the potential to confuse.

]]> By: Dormouse http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/15/beelzebub-1162/#comment-196006 Dormouse Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:20:36 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=45343#comment-196006 Several of the answers I had were correct but I couldn’t for the life of me see why – 12ac, 29ac, 24dn, 25dn. The first of those now seems so obvious I don’t know why I didn’t look up “red” in Chambers to see the rubbish meaning, which I don’t think I’ve come across before.

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