Comments on: Financial Times 14112 Armonie

By: scchua

scchua — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:42:38 +0000

Belated thanks mike04. For some reason, your comment went into my spam folder plus I didn’t check on the blog the next morning, nor since.

By: mike04

mike04 — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:36:42 +0000

scchua
I found this in the The List of Abbreviations at the back of my old (1976) Chambers:
H.A. Heavy Artillery.
Glad I didn’t turf it out!

By: scchua

scchua — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:07:13 +0000

Thanks for all your comments.
[[Bryan and any others, I've included, beneath the pictures, a link to the answer to Pic.#2.]]

By: rulei

rulei — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:22:37 +0000

Oh dear, it’s late in the day isn’t it! Please overlook the apostrophe that furtively crept into Mick Flan’s name.

By: rulei

rulei — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:21:06 +0000

Flander’s & Swann “Have Some Madeira M’Dear”
http://www.iankitching.me.uk/humour/hippo/madeira.html

By: rowland

rowland — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:16:53 +0000

Great blog, scchua, I’m impressed as ever, and a very nice puzzle today, probably the simplest of the three. Good health to Mike04 indeed, as that was my CoD.

Cheers
Rowly.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:11:42 +0000

Many thanks Scchua & Armonie, I enjoyed this.

[The photos are:

1 Roy Rogars whose horse was called TRIGGER;

2 David Suchet; and

3 Flanders & Swann

I have no idea how 2 & 3 relate to the puzzle.]

By: crypticsue

crypticsue — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:19:05 +0000

A fairly straightforward solve but no less enjoyable for that. Thanks to Armonie and scchua too.

By: scchua

scchua — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:43:39 +0000

Thanks mike04, you must be right. And apologies to setter for missing out on the subtleties of the clue, and of whisky drinking and whisky drinkers.

By: mike04

mike04 — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:10:52 +0000

Thanks for the blog, scchua.

I read 7dn from a different point of view. The use of the word ‘malt’ is significant.
There’s a difference between a Malt Whisky and a Grain Whisky:
http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/item/item_audio.jsp?item_id=41383

With this in mind, I think the clue implies that a malt whisky drinker would not be in favour of drinking grain whiskies. Therefore being AGAINST THE GRAIN would not be out of character.
Slainte mhath!