Guardia Cryptic N° 25,962 by Boatman: Sweet talk

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The puzzle may be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/cryptic/25962.

It took me quite a while to tune into Boatman’s wavelength, and even then it was slow going; there is plenty of ingenuity on show, but just a couple of cases where I think he pushes the envelope a little too far.

Across
7. They make cold scalp hot in a blizzard (5,4)
CLOTH CAPS A charade of C (‘cold’) plus LOTHCAPS, an anagram (‘in a blizzard’; and maybe ‘they make’ as well, if you want a full &lit) of ‘scalp hot’.
8,27. Banana split by Monsieur Escoffier, le premier pour préparer une bombe? (5,1,4)
PLANT A MINE An envelope (‘split by’) of M (‘Monsieur’) in PLANTAIN (‘banana’); plus E (‘Escoffier, le premier’). The French serves just to introduce the surface reading: a bombe is an ice cream confection.
9. As it has no limit, no end of folly (9)
ASININITY A subtraction – ‘as’ plus IN[f]inity’ (‘it has no limits’) without the F (‘no end oF‘; not the prettiest indication of a letter – see this week’s Everyman for the real way of doing it ). I wonder if the intent was to take the F from ‘Folly’ (in my beginning is my end), giving an &lit; I do not find this any more satisfactory.
10,1. Pudding cooked ? I’ll check with wife, say (5,6)
BAKED ALASKA A charade of BAKED (‘cooked’) plus ALASKA, a homophone (‘say’) of I’LL ASK HER (‘I’ll check with wife’).
12. Egg — perhaps pheasant — found by Lawrence (6)
GAMETE A charade of GAME (‘perhaps pheasant’) plus TE (‘Lawrence’ of Arabia’). ‘Perhaps’ does double duty – both ‘egg’ and ‘pheasant’ are indications by example.
13. Teaser: eg “oddities and whatnots” (8)
ETAGERES An anagram (‘oddities’) of ‘teaser eg’. A ‘whatnot’ is the piece of furniture as well as the thing you put there.
16. Part of the story of English pastry is about the land (7)
EPISODE An envelope (‘is about’) of SOD (‘the land’) in E (‘English) plus PIE (‘pastry’).
19. Here nomads eat sheep’s head for pudding (7)
DESSERT An envelope (‘eat’) of S (‘Sheeps head’; that’s more like it!) in DESERT (‘here nomads’).
22. One has faith in the UK‘s endless fishing? It contains the seeds of complete annihilation (8)
ANGLICAN An envelope (‘it contains’) of CA (‘the seeds of Complete Annihilation’) in ANGLIN[g] (‘fishing’) without its last letter (‘endless’).
25. Pudding for tea, say? Where’s that? (6)
AFTERS In the alphabet T (‘tea, say’) comes AFTER S.
27. See 8
– See 8
28. Police duo outlook? (4,5)
COUP DOEIL An anagram (‘out’) of ‘police duo’.
29. Pudding could be said to anticipate shortage (5)
BLACK A charade of B (‘be said’) plus (‘to anticipate’) LACK (‘shortage’). At last a pudding that is not sweet.
30. Barge recklessly overloaded with pudding ingredient, a root (5,4)
SUGAR BEET An envelope (‘overloaded with’) of GARBE, an anagram (‘recklessly’) of ‘barge’ in SUET (‘pudding ingredient’).
Down
1. See 10
– See 10
2. Clue to tone of pudding (4,4)
ETON MESS A reverse anagram (MESS) of ETON is ‘tone’. New one on me.
3. Basis of sweet course in times past: a lot of ale (6)
SCONCE A charade of SC (‘basis of Sweet Course’) plus ONCE (‘in times past’). At Oxford, a sconce is a tankard, holding a quart or more of beer, or more correctly the fine imposed in the form of a brimful sconce pot.
4,18. To make pudding, boil diced ingredients in empty tank (7,4)
SPOTTED DICK A charade of SPOT (‘boil’, as a lump on the skin) plus an envelope (‘in’) of EDDIC, an anagram (‘ingredients’) of ‘diced’ in TK (’empty TanK‘).
5. Indulge in pudding (extra large) (6)
PLEASE An envelope (‘extra’; ‘in’ as well, unless you overlook it, or include it in the definition, with which I am not happy) of L (‘large’) in PEASE (‘pudding’, another savoury).
6. Spooner’s starting to say joints are a problem with cold (6)
SNEEZE A charade of S (‘Spooner’s starting’) plus NEEZE, a hompohone (‘to say’) of KNEES (‘joints’). Was there anyone not led up the pardon Garth here?
11. See 17
– See 17
14. See 16
– See 16
15. Boatman’s in the way — it’s deliberate (3)
SIT An envelope (‘in’) – yes a three-lettered one – of I (‘Boatman’) in ST (street, ‘the way’). The definition is ‘deliberate’ as a verb, of a court, say.
16,14. Follow up point in game (6)
ECARTE A charade of ECART, a reversal (‘up’ in a down clue) of TRACE (‘follow’) plus E (‘point’). The split between two lights stretches the normal rule that each part must be a word; here the halves are recognized acronyms (Economic Commission for Africa, and Radio Telefis Eireann), but not even especially common ones.
17,11. Ingredient of pudding: rat? Evidently, one says: “No thank you” (7)
INGRATE A hidden answer (‘ingredient of’) in ‘puddING RAT Evidently’. Here ING could be a dialect word for a meadow.
18. See 4
– See 4
20. Strange custom, to live in Devon (8)
SUTCOMBE A charade of SUTCOM, an anagram (‘strange’) of ‘custom’ plus BE (‘to live’). I am fairly familiar with Devon, but had not come across this particular combe.
21. Sharp, concise facts: key on the Guardian (2,5)
IN FOCUS A charade of INFO (‘consice facts’) plus C (‘key’) plus US (‘the Guardian’).
23. Viz features Spooner’s problem joint (6)
NAMELY This time the joint is the same, but Spooner serves his more usual (dis)function: LAME KNEE (‘problem joint’).
24. Folly of starting to let unhealthy nutrition affect chubby youths (6)
LUNACY First letters (‘starting’) of ‘Let Unhealthy Nutrition Affect Chubby Youths’.
25. Entice with an apple crumble (6)
APPEAL A charade of A (‘an’) plus PPEAL, an anagram (‘crumble’) of ‘apple’.
26. Agitated and drunk after end of dinner (6)
ROILED A charade of R (‘end of dinner’) plus OILED (‘drunk’).

51 comments on “Guardia Cryptic N° 25,962 by Boatman: Sweet talk”

  1. Well done with the blog, PeterO, and thanks to Boatman for this very difficult crossword.

    I cannot recall having more trouble with a daily cryptic crossword, even allowing for my entering burnt rather than BAKED ALASKA. I liked SNEEZE, AFTERS and ETON MESS especially.

    I was defeated by 7 or 8 clues in my attempt to complete this without aids and do not feel that I would have been able to solve PLANT A MINE, COUP DOEIL (the missing apostrophe beat me, despite correct parsing), ECARTE or APPEAL (I rejected the possibilty of an anagram involving apple) without a very prolonged struggle and a sudoku-like approach.

    I was using the F from folly in ASININITY, but think you may be correct about it being from of.

    I look forward to the next Boatman crossword, so I can try to get my mojo back!

  2. Great puzzle – one to savour for a long time to come.

    Always look forward to a Boatman and this one didn’t disappoint. I usually tune in to B’s wavelength fairly early on (even though he sort of switches channels as you go along) but I found this one well to the tough end of the scale – or at least a few key clues took a lot of staring at before some superb PDMs.

    9a I took as an &lit and doubly nifty for using “end” to mean the near end (ie as opposed to the far end). “End of” for F works in the bracket-spraying approach to wordplay evaluation so maybe that’s a bonus but I think I like the &lit approach better.

    It’s easy to get hold of the “wrong end of the stick” on that one. You could go on for ever really with expressions indicating the literal (rather than cruciverbal commonplace) possible meanings of “end”. It’s twists like that which make clever clues clever.

    8,27 took the longest but 5d was last in, even though I had had that pud in mind early on for a twist from the normal sweet variety.

    Impeccably logical and tight cluing as always.

    Well done B – wish we saw more of you.

    Thanks for the blog PO.

  3. Great blog Peter, and tough puzzle Boatman. This was grim fun, like steep jogging. I called it off with four to go: in the SE corner plus ECARTE. I suppose there’s no rule saying split bits like 16 and 14 need to make actual words.

  4. Thanks to Boatman and PeterO
    I gave up on PLANT A MINE (to be honest, it still doesn’t really make sense to me, though PeterO’s parsing looks spot on.)
    I loved the &lit CLOTH CAPS and the near homophone BAKED ALASKA (reminding of jokes like “My wife’s gone to the West Indies” “Jamaica?” “No, she went of her own accord”.)
    I wasn’t really happy about ECARTE, COUP D’OEIL and APPEAL for reasons already commented on; in particular “an apple crumble” surely means “anagram of AN apple”?

  5. Phi has a 12 letter word split across four answers, each of which is a three letter word in its own right and I must say I prefer that elegance to the meaningless strings here, especially when they are in a foreign language.

    I didn’t like this one much though I see I’m in the minority. Chacun etc etc but thanks anyway to setter and blogger alike.

  7. Thanks for the blog, PeterO, and well done, you! I didn’t envy you this one.

    I’m afraid that, unusually for a Boatman puzzle, I didn’t get much pleasure from this and, like others, had to ‘cheat’ to get to the end. I think it’s well known that I enjoy adventurous and innovative cluing but there were just a few too many liberties taken in one puzzle even for me today, e.g. French words as three of the answers, one meaninglessly split [yes, Molonglo, I think there is a fairly generally accepted ‘rule’ about this] as well as in one of the clues – and I think SUTCOMBE is easily on a par with any of Araucaria’s obscure Cambridgeshire villages: it’s not even near anywhere I’ve heard of.

    I did like ETON MESS – that’s my kind of clue – and, on another day, I might have enjoyed SNEEZE, but, by the time I got there, I was too exasperated, having already negotiated one genuine Spoonerism [and they’re my anathema] but it was clever of Boatman to bamboozle us like that.

    muffin, I was reminded of the Perry Como song, based on US states, which includes the verse:

    Where has Oregon, boys,
    Where has Oregon?
    If you want Alaska,
    (I’ll-ask-a) where she’s gone.
    She went to pay her Texas
    She went to pay her Texas
    She went to pay her Texas,
    That’s where she has gone.

    You can hear the whole song here:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NztfOSyCCFM [Drat, I shall have it going round my headall day now.]

    Like Muffyword, I shall look forward to the next Boatman puzzle and my usual enjoyment.

  8. Eileen @ 7
    Thanks for that – what did Delaware? (I did also think of Djakarta)
    By the way, in a recent crossword we had “namely – sc. (scilicet)”; today we have “namely = viz. (vedilicet”. Is there any difference in the Latin shade of meaning?

  9. Hi muffin

    I think they’re pretty well interchangeable: scilicet is derived from scire licet – it is allowed/permissible to know and videlicet [sic!] from videre licet – it is allowed/ permissible to see. Under ‘scilicet’, my Latin dictionary has ‘cf videlicet’.

    Now you’ve got me wondering why the abbreviation of videlicet is viz. 😉

  11. Thanks again, Eileen (and for the correction – would you believe it, I had typed the question with my dictionary in front of me, then then link crashed when I tried to upload it – I wrote it again from (imperfect) memory!)

  12. Thanks yet again for the link, Eileen. The etymology part is difficult to understand, possibly because the character set on this computer inserts a “square” symbol after the “vi” (indicating a missing character?) – should there be something else instead?

  13. Ah yes, sometimes they’re easier, sometimes they’re trickier … I just follow where the theme takes me, and on this occasion it lead to trickiness. I’m glad that most of you seem to be having fun with at least some of it, though.

    Molonglo – you are quite right that split solutions should form complete words in each light. However, I take the view that anything in Chambers is fair game (as long as the clue is otherwise fair and accurate), including acronyms – RTE will be familiar to anyone who’s travelled to Ireland or watched the Eurovision Song Contest, though I accept that ECA wouldn’t be known to most people. A bit of a cheat, perhaps, but I’d still rather do this than give you four unrelated three-letter words, which (to my eye) form an annoying suture line across an otherwise useful grid.

    Eileen – I should have known that the two Spooner references would drive you to distraction! I’m sorry, I just couldn’t stop myself …

  15. I managed to complete this puzzle with a lot of inspired guesswork, frequent use of the “check” button plus other aids, but I failed to parse quite a few clues such as 2d, 25a, 10/1 8/27 & 5d.

    New words for me were ECARTE, ETAGERES, COUP D’OEIL & SUTCOMBE. Although I studied French for 6 years in secondary school, those words were new to me, and I could only solve SUTCOMBE as it was an anagram.

    I never enjoy clues such as 16/14 or 17/11where there is a split between two lights, especially when the two sections are not very recognisable as real words.

    I liked 9a although I see that I parsed it incorrectly. I parsed it as AS IN IN(fin)ITY, ie minus ‘fin’ = end. I also liked 28a.

    Thanks for the blog, PeterO.

  16. A bito f a mess for mwe, all kinnds of curious tropes, and a puzzle made hard for the sake od it I feel.Good vcreatvty in places, but all wrong, no doiscplien what so ever!!!

    9 across &lit? What planet are YOUU on , Jolly!?

    Cheers
    Rowely.

  17. Definitely libertarian with some spiky parsings as already mentioned, definitely difficult, and great fun I thought.

    Rowland@16
    The clue can be read as a definition of “asinine” so it could be an &lit, a full one if folly is part of the wordplay (end of folly = f – not that everyone will like that!). Reading ‘as’ to mean “while” is one approach that seems to work (as asininity has no limit, so folly is endless – it’s almost scholastic in tone). It wasn’t just JollyS who parsed it as &lit – PeterO did too, he just didn’t like it. The latest Azed slip goes into this issue a bit and he’s going to look at it again next month. I think generally definitions for/as &lits are cut some slack even (perhaps especially) by Ximeneans – not least because if the definition isn’t fairly eccentric the clue becomes very easy.

  18. Row – I claim no &Lit for 9Ac – the F is definitely from “of”, as far as I’m concerned. I do agree that this is a clumsy way of indicating a letter, though, and the sort of thing that I would point out in my students’ work. In this case, I felt that it was tolerable as it gave a degree of concision, which I think is needed when the parsing has two or three elements to it.

  19. Thanks, Boatman for the puzzle and PeterO for a superblog.

    When I saw Boatman’s name, I thought I was in for a struggle but it fell out nicely.

    There was a big groan when I saw Spooner’s name in two clues! However, after staring at SNEEZE for a while, I was very pleased that it was the first letter of his name.

    Like others, I’ve never heard of SUTCOMBE but got the combe part without difficulty and was glad to complete it.Anagrams are not favourites, either!

    Giovanna x

  20. … though I’m always happy if the surface reading leaves the suggestion of an &Lit hanging in the air, as it were, after the clue is solved. Sometimes that approach leads to a genuine &Lit; more often, to a Semi&Lit. In this case, it’s an allusion, there to please you if you choose to let the clue sit in your mind a while …

  21. Thanks for the blog, PeterO. And thanks to Boatman for dropping by…

    This started well with ETON MESS, which is my sort of clue! But things slowed down quite soon after that and I only got to the end with heavy use of the check button.

    I wanted to like 8,27 more than I did and I was also a bit thrown by ECA RTE, which seemed a little unfair.

    AFTERS was ingenious, though I didn’t parse it at the time.

    Too difficult for me today but I could appreciate the variety of clueing. (Although I thought, like Eileen, there was perhaps one too many Spoonerisms?)

  22. Thanks PeterO and Boatman

    I like puddings but this sometimes seemed to be trying a bit too hard to be clever for my taste. I solved it all and understood nearly all of it. I mistook the missing f in 9a as from ‘folly’ and I didn’t see the reason for the splits in 16,14 and in 17d though the answers were ultimately clear. I had to look up Sutcombe having guessed the ‘combe’ part (‘afters’ came later in the solving).

    I ticked 25a, 30a, and 23d.

  23. I eventually had to give up and cheat on 8,12 – the phrase looks quite artificial, as mines are usually laid, not planted. Several others were entered without really understanding the wordplay, so thanks to PeterO for the blog.

    muffin@12: the missing character is something like a 7 – see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tironian_notes

  24. @rowly #16 – I’m on planet earth.

    Asininity (asslikeness) suggests not just stupidity but stubbornness with it so the “no end of” bit enhances the def as does even at a pinch the “As it has no limit”.

    Irrespective of the setter’s original intentions it is there to be read – so there’s an element of &lit in it and I am not personally of the school of thought which cares to fuss about whether it’s a kosher one, a semi or whatever fraction you care to name.

    It may be more accurate to talk of an “extended definition” – it depends which self-appointed college of cruciverbal cardinals you choose to follow.

    For me it’s always nice if a clue works by some conventional interpretation but also suggests similar ideas by some other means – especially when it’s all done with only a few words.

    Cheers JS 🙂

  25. Thanks PeterO and Boatman (both for the puzzle and the genial contribution to the discussion).

    I came late to this today, which is just as well as I would have been seriously delayed in my plans for the day had I tackled it earlier. I enjoyed it, though I found it very tough and had to resort to word searches in a couple of places. I had REGALE for 5d: ‘indulge’ as the def, and an anagram of ‘e(extra) large’. This is a bit of a stretch, admittedly, but not much more than some of the genuine clues and their solutions! This made PLANT A MINE completely impenetrable…

    I did like the misleading Spooner in 6d.

  27. &lit is where the ‘SI’ (bits)) alone only do their jonb to define the elements. But by the artifice, a definition is also there withjout neeed for extra word/. Simples. Booatmn is trying to do

    AS + IN f INITY plus ‘folly’.

    Rollo.

  28. Met my match here. I’m one to persevere when I need to but it was a struggle to get to half way so I turned to the blog. Congratulations, PeterO.

    In 16, 14 two abbrevs, one of which is obscure to say the least, is pushing it a bit. As has been said, it’s not right to truncate the AN before APPLE as anagram fodder surely. But SUTCOMBE was an early write-in so each to their own obscurity I suppose.

    Still it all adds to the great cycle of life that is the Guardian crossword. Not that life is bad: as I write, in a sunny pub garden, my sticky toffee pudding arrives. Didn’t clue that one, did you Boatman?!!

  29. Wow! New to the Guardian this week; yesterday was hard, but today – for me – impossible. Managed 7 solutions before I came on here rather than tear it up. I have no knowledge of French, which doesn’t help. In fact there were 6 solutions which are new words to me.

    Getting 19a as DAMSONS (a sort of pudding?), and knowing of SUTCOMBE tying it in led me on a wild goose chase too!

  30. I liked 30a, but partly ‘cos I used to work on a barge in Holland, and the annual sugar beet harvest was a major source of income for the skippers – I guess Boatman might know that.

  31. Trail – Glad that someone else has heard of Sutcombe!

    The “an” in 25 Dn isn’t part of the anagram fodder – you need to parse the clue as PeterO did, as a combination of charade and anagram (or “letter-jumble” for those who insist that a true anagram can only apply to an entire word). So, ignoring the definition and accepting “with” as a link-word:

    (A = synonym for “an”) + (PPEAL = anag of “apple”, indicated in non-Ximenean fashion by “crumble”)

    Sticky toffee was edged out by mess and Alaska, for obvious reasons. I know which I’d rather eat, though …

  33. Agree that 8,27 is stretched too far
    and that 16,14 is illegitimate. Other clues
    too are loose ( such as 13, where ‘whatnot’
    is not a definition of ‘etagere’).
    Disappointing when setters wilfully contravene
    sense.

  34. Hi Crossbencher @33
    “Other clues too are loose (such as 13, where ‘whatnot’ is not a definition of ‘etagere’).

    The following two definitions from Chambers seem very similar to me:

    étagère – a display stand with shelves for small objects or ornaments, etc

    whatnot – a light piece of furniture with shelves for bric-à-brac, etc

  35. As well as all the rest, I struggled with SCONCE too. Does it ever occur to certain people that their private slang from certain establishments might not be known to the world at latge?

  36. In the spirit of multiligualism, hang on a moment while I translate this into Sesotho.

    JollySwagman @24

    I like your proposal of “extended definition” (and the way you express it). I may well take it up – it is neatly descriptive, and does not have the baggage of &lit/semi-&lit.

    Gatacre @29

    Welcome to the wonderful world of Guardian crosswords. You happen to have hit on two successive puzzles by setters with distinctive different – and difficult – styles. I would expect that you will do better as you get to know them.

    Boatman

    Thanks for the crossword and your comments on it I am chuffed that I got your intended parsing of 9A; where there is a hint of alternate parsings, I seem to plump regularly for the wrong one. In 25A, I think ‘an’/A is perfectly defensible – if you use ‘an’ before a word beginning with a vowel, you should use A before the anagram beginning with a consonant.

    Rowland @27

    I refer you to Boatman @18 and @20, which you wold appear to have overlooked.

  38. Enjoyed that, apart from having to give up on 8,27. Did anyone else get diverted by thoughts of “flan”, “ago” and “flagon”s of ale in solving 3? I knew it didn’t work, but it took some time for me to dismiss it entirely.

  39. Re Vic@37. I’ve just realised the derivation of the breed of dog our family had many years ago when we lived in Belgium. He was a “little boatman”!

  40. OMG – I was looking forward to some R&R with the cryptic after a hard day at work…but I really struggled with this one, and gave up about half way through to finish only with the aid of the cheat button (oh dear). I think that having 3 french answers was a little unfair and harumphed a lot at PLANT A MINE, not to mention ECARTE. But I did like BAKED ALASKA and CLOTH CAPS. Still, all this talk of puddings has made me want to sit in a beer garden with sticky toffee as per Trailman @ 28!

  41. I felt that this was libertarian in the extreme, and Boatman doesn’t have enough puzzles published for me to ever feel comfortable with his setting style.

    Having said that, I persevered and finished correctly, although I had to use aids to get my last in, COUP D’OEIL, when I was fairly certain COUP D’OLIE didn’t sound right. Pretty embarrassing considering I passed my French O’level many moons ago, but I’m using the excuse that by the time I got around to solving it my brain had been turned to mush by the rest of the clues.

  43. Late as usual. I admire Boatman, but this one was too contrived in places, as mentioned by Crossbencher @33, and I concur with Eileen @7. Well blogged PeterO

  44. Admin: Offensive comment removed. Callipygean, this is the second time I have had to do this in recent weeks. You are now under moderation.

  45. I wonder if there is a Guardian crosworder in Sutcombe who got it straight away?

    muffin@4. My childhood reading of Jamaica was the same as what nearly happened to Lovely Rita.

  46. Didn’t enjoy this at all.

    Got most of it but when I gave up and decided to cheat on PLANT A MINE I was glad I had!!!!

    Over contrived in my opinion. Lots of other things I didn’t like but all have been mentioned here already.

    Worst Boatman ever and I usually enjoy him.

    Thanks to PeterO for the blog.

  47. @PO #36 I can’t claim credit for “extended definition” – I picked it up from somewhere else – it might be a Biddlecombeism – ie in his ST clue comp write-ups.

    The idea is that you may look at some otherwise conventional 2-part clues and suspect double duty on the wordplay/def overlap but on further inspection it turns out that the non-wordplay part will do as a def on its own but “borrowing” some of the adjacent wordplay words makes it a better one.

    étagere – I think in French it’s usually just a shelf but as loanword in English it’s more likely to be a whatnot.

    OED
    étagere: a piece of furniture with open shelves for displaying ornaments.

    whatnot: a stand with shelves for small objects

    Sorry to go all dictionary on you. I don’t have a whatnot myself, not having enough thingummies to populate one – and even if I did – the dog would be sure to knock it over on the dirst day. 🙂

  48. I can’t see how ‘as it has no limit, no end of’ extends the ‘folly’ definition here.

    The thing is, asininity wouldn’t necessarily persist EXCEPT where it has no limit. And that would be to MODIFY the meaning, rather than extend any natural, or dictionary definition for this word.

    I know what you’re getting at, Swaggers old bean, but I just don’t think you’ve chosen a particularly good example. here’s one that IS a fine illustration:

    English exasperation dispossessed provoked here? (4)

  49. Beaten down by this one. Stalled and hard at about half finished.

    I agree about it being a bit too libertarian, but perhaps Boatman is our new Auracaria?

    I complain about 16/14, along with PJ@5. Two TLAs do not words make.

    A puzzle that should have been sweet due to its theme, but made distasteful… but, hey, it’s Friday. This should have been a Saturday.

    Not so much fun as feeling like I was being beaten about the head by a heavy but soft object.

    Thanks for the puzzle, Boatman, and for the excellent blog, PeterO!

  50. PS, what’s up with Rowly? The spelling, I mean. Is he honouring our missing RCW in a jocular vein?

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