Guardian 28,187 / Paul

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1. Thanks Paul and Eileen

   It’s 25,15, so it is OVER EASY. I’ve heard the expression in American films, but I’ve no idea what it refers to!

   Some might argue that the M6 heads south 🙂

2. Thanks, Eileen.  I enjoyed the tougher challenge today after the fairly easy ones earlier this week, and I always enjoy Paul’s humour.  Thanks for the link to how to play keep-uppy.  I’ll be out there later, having a go.  I parsed “short” in 20/23 as you did.

3. Muffin: over easy – frying the egg so the yolk is on top – not flipped (v good on muffins btw)

4. Thanks TerriBlislow

5. over easy
   (of fried eggs) turned over when nearly done and fried briefly on the reverse side so that the yolk remains somewhat liquid but with a thin, firm layer on top.

6. Eileen @5

   I’ve only heard OVER EASY, and it is that way round in the grid (sorry!)

7. Jay – we crossed. I’m going to delete both my comments.

8. Tough going at first but gradually got there. Bell the cat was a guess but what a delightful phrase. Liked Joe Bloggs and Clarinet. Your entry on Lassie states the answer to 16 is ‘Miss’ rather than ‘Maid’ but a lovely blog as usual Eileen. Good to see Paul finish with Smutty?

9. Thanks, Alan – I’ll amend it.

10. Thanks both. I think your confusion, Eileen, comes from the fact that you’ve put in 25,15 as EASY OVER when in fact it is OVER EASY

11. I forgot to say that I didn’t know about Trump’s hands – thanks for that link, Eileen.

12. Some typical ribaldry from Paul which, of course, I enjoyed very much. I latched onto the def of CASTLE HOWARD quite quickly but kept trying to put CASTLE in as the second word, which slowed me down.

    MARXISM, CLARINET and MINUTE HANDS were all good fun. No complaints; would solve again. 🙂

     

13. With Mrs ginf, once had a picnic lunch in the folly down back of 22,4…didn’t help, remembered post the tricky solve. Brain similarly sluggish re 4d, as in ‘what’s that famous resort with the piers?’, d’oh. Even more d’oh as an old Yorkshire boss used to say “Move, don’t gaze about, it’s not expletive Bluckpool”.

    So, great Paul, I thought, chewy and witty. Marx seems current…the times, perhaps? 27a was Paul-reflexive, but not 6d though it sounded suggestive..(merino correct here, essexboy and Alan). And no, star gazy had nothing to do with the ‘over easy’ clue.

    Lots of fun, well worth the head-scratching, thanks both.

14. Thanks,Shirl@10 – I’ll amend that too. I think I should start again!

15. Thanks Eileen. We had EASY OVER as an answer in a Phi puzzle a few years ago. Strangely, Chambers gives this form (which then, as now, no one had heard of) but not OVER EASY.

16. PS for those who are not aware of this: Paul (John Halpern) has been hosting Zoom sessions during the lockdown on the days when his puzzles are published. You can sign up for an invitation for today on his website

17. Apologies all round: I’d only heard of EASY OVER eggs, as in  Chambers. Now I find OVER EASY online. There’s no need for any reversal, as I commented originally in the blog: it’s simply a double definition.

18. Thanks for that, Andrew @16. I’d have liked to do that but we’re having a family Zoom quiz this evening.

19. muffin @1: Whilst your point is clearly made tongue in cheek, arguing the M6 heads South would surely betray a London/SE bias?  The junctions are numbered from the South to the North so, in my book, it’s always headed North!  (And I think it was built from South to North too)

    I found this hard going today resorting to a couple of reveals towards the end as I ran out of time.  All fairly clued though, so no complaints.  Ticks for MARXISM (I love how Paul, in particular, seems to spot words/phrases within words, even upside down), PRINCETON, CLARINET and KEEPY UPPY (at which I was always hopeless!).  I suspect the homophone police should be happy with JOE BLOGGS which made me smile.  COTD is a toss up between TABLEAU for the clever use of ‘my heart’ and CASTLE HOWARD for the misdirectional definition.

    Thanks Paul and Eileen for the helpful blog and links.

20. This was my first puzzle by Paul, so I was surprised when I got four of the answers on my first reading, the first being OVER EASY from spending some time in the US. First (easiest) corner completed was the SW. I found the remaining corners far from easy, clawing my way around. I did not know TIMBALE, KEEPY UPPY or BELL THE CAT. To me, quite a few clues were in  halting / awkward English: 10, 12, 17, 22, 4, 24, 5, 8, 20, 23.  I finally twigged CASTLE in the SE from crossers and thence HOWARD (from watching Brideshead Revisited  many years ago) missing the chicken reference.  I know of and worked out BLACKPOOL ROCK from crossers, not knowing what it has to do with feeding badgers. Favourite was PRINCETON.  Last corner to yield was NE and my LOI was AMERICANO. All in all, my parsing was rather hit or miss!

    Thanks to Paul and to Eileen for the  explications.

21. Andrew @15 .I remember that Phi puzzle and I objected as in all my travels in America I had only heard it as above.

    I had too much =over and like pie= easy

    And it is a lazy way of cooking the yoke. Fry yolk upwards then flip. And serve with a stewed coffee with fake cream.

    And thanks for ref to CAT the BELL or whatever it was . La Fontaine eh?

    Thanks Eileen and Paul.

22. Took a long time and sadly ended up being a DNF for us today, we did not get AMIN and had put in CASTLE COWARD! BELL THE CAT was new to us but we managed to parse it correctly.

    Favourites were MARXISM, MINUTE HANDS (had not heard of the president’s shortcomings in this area before) and PRINCETON.

    Thanks to Eileen for the blog and Paul for the challenge.

23. …sorry, Atlanta dave (not Alan), re merino..got the A right at least 🙂

24. A much-interrupted solve but perhaps that helped – there were a few where I knew what to do but could not bring the right synonym to mind and those went in easier after attending to a few tasks and letting the subconscious do the heavy lifting. Some nice variations, especially on the oft-clued “americano” and “buckram” and I liked the moving “t” in “clarinet”. I was a little surprised to find “yuppie” spelled “yuppy” and my first entry for Trump’s appendages was “little hands” which fitted just fine, though perhaps I am remembering teaching my children to read a clockface and using childish terminology!

    All good fun – thanks Eileen and Paul. BTW Muffin’s comment @6 now makes no sense as I think the original comment @5 has gone!

25. This was very challenging.

    Liked: CASTLE HOWARD, AMERICANO, OVER EASY (loi)

    New: KEEPY-UPPY, B/LACK/POOL ROCK (found it via google, but did not parse it), BELL THE CAT

    Did not parse the AU in 3d TABLE/AU.

     

    Thanks Eileen and Paul.

26. Thanks Eileen and Paul. A fun and steady solve.

    I don’t think 24ac is quite a proper &lit because “collectible” is only definition, not wordplay but it’s close.

    My only slight raised eyebrow was for the “hot and steamy” Americano which must be one of the few fancy coffees made without steaming the milk. But I suppose why let that get in the way of a suggestive surface?

27. A DNF as despite having all the crossers, BELL THE CAT eluded me. Loved MINUTE HANDS for the way it unfolded in my brain and brought the first grin of the day 🙂 Held myself up for a while by fixating on a semi-parsed JOE PUBLIC. Cheers all

     

28. PS I can instantly hear the Purcellian strains of the Bridehead music, omg how long ago is it… first time we saw Jeremy Irons too (later in Mission, ditto re its music, vale Morreconi…so many associations..!)

29. I enjoyed this overall with several write-ins and entries from partially parsing the clue.  1D held me up for a while as it was new to me.  All the surfaces read naturally though I think 25,15 is missing something to make it do so. Wouldn’t it be better as  “…egg’s…” or “eggs are”. The expression I’ve heard for easy is “like a piece of pie” to mean easy.

    I didn’t parse 18 correctly as it turn out, as I assumed wrongly, that a “buck” was young reporter and “ram’ was the sign (Aries) and was unconvinced by the “written up” instruction, so thanks Eileen for elucidating and to Paul.

30. grantinfreo @ 28. The theme music is by J-J Mouret. Here is a link

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8RBM2rJvoA

31. Annoyingly couldn’t get LASSIE or TIMBALE in the NW corner, as wasn’t sure which 16 was being referred to in 11ac. Needed to come on here to see how exactly PRINCETON was parsed, though it was almost FOI. Steve Bell the Guardian cartoonist always portraying Trump with tiny hands helped verify 26,2 for me. The usual Paul fun and games this morning. Enjoyed the journey.

32. Mark@19 (And I think it was built from South to North too) Well, being from Quernmore, I would claim it was built from N to S: Preston bypass (now part of the M6) was Britain’s first motorway. I don’t recall if it was called the M6 at the time, however.

    No answers the first time through this crossword! But the second run got me going, and a steady flow thereafter.

    I first came across the phrase “Easy over”, as I remember it, in Canada in the 1970s; I wonder if there is a distinction between Canada and the US on this?

     

    Thanks Eileen and Paul

     

     

33. Found this a challenge, despite usually being on Paul’s slightly smutty wavelength, but managed to finish with the help of the check button. Loved MINUTE HANDS! Had not heard the phrase BELL THE CAT. Thanks Paul and Eileen.

     

34. [Hmmm @ 30 – not sure what you saw/heard in Oz, but in the UK the theme was by Geoffrey Burgon]

35. Dave Ellison @32: thanks for enlightening me. It opened before I was born is my excuse! Now I’ve been prompted to look, there are some interesting articles on the Web about its construction and opening. Apparently the average speed over the Preston bypass in the early years was 38mph. Which is faster than I normally seem to experience it!

36. Shirl @34 (and Hmmm in Oz @30)

    I was tempted to give this link in the blog: very evocative – almost 40 years ago!

37. Thanks, Eileen. I found this pretty chewy, but enjoyable. Not much to add, except for a question: does anyone here work in PR or marketing? I say “or” because I don’t think they’re the same.

38. Shirl @34. I actually watched Masterpiece Theatre in the US on PBS, with Alastair Cooke doing the intros after the  (UK recorded) music. My point was really that it was not written by Purcell. My posting was the second one I found on youtube (the first was on an organ!). Agree not as good as the original I heard on MT. [PBS= public broadcasting service. We used to call it ‘primarily British shows’.]

39. Hi Miche @37 – I did wonder about that – and half-hoped someone might query / elucidate it. I’ve just found this.

40. OVER EASY made me smile as I recalled going, many years ago, to a brunch with a group in New York.  A young woman visiting from Scotland was asked by the waitress, “How do you want your eggs done?”  The lassie looked stunned and said, after a pause, “No one’s ever asked me that before!”  I always have mine sunny.

41. Thanks for clearing up a lot of this, Eileen. I didn’t get “Bell the cat” nor “Americano” – for the latter I got fixated on accountancy qualifications and anagrams of tale/yarn (I did think of threads but didn’t get as specific as merino) – the O then led me to guess Joe Bloggs right at the death and couldn’t parse it without coming here (ditto AMIN). First guess for 26,2 was “Little hands” (thanks to ongoing attempts to teach son to tell the time) until PRINCETON forced a rethink- and I object to the second half of that clue as may imply that this is Trump’s only inadequacy! My favourites CLARINET and SMUTTY – thanks Paul.

42. I thought I remembered ‘easy over’ being used in California, but maybe that’s wrong – [for our American friends], is it regional usage?

    TAHITI was LOI, although AMIN was FOI from the definition. I didn’t know BELL THE CAT, a lovely expression.

    I liked the intersecting KEEPY-UPPY and TABLEAU.

    Thanks Paul and Eileen.

43. Hmmm (in both senses!), Purcellian was a style descriptor…my ramblings were about the Brideshead score (Johnson?) and The Mission score (Morreconi, just now late, vale).

44. …JohnsTon..

45. That was a bit tough for me this morning, and took a fair bit longer than usual for a Paul, who I normally manage quite steadily.
    I struggled in the SW by entering LITTLE instead of MINUTE, as TheZed has commented, not really doubting myself. Then PRINCETON fell (what a thought!) and everything slotted in nicely.
    Had to check BELL THE CAT and TIMBALE, and thanks Eileen for the parsing of AMERICANO, CLARINET and TABLEAU.
    Never heard of Hecate, so not too disappointed that it’s strictly a DNF for me.
    Lovely puzzle nonetheless, thanks Paul.

46. Delightful.
    FOI – MINUTE HAND – gently kicked a smile into the air where it hovered throughout the solve being kept up by such artful tappings as KEEPY-UPPY, JOE BLOGGS, TABLEAU and BLACKPOOL ROCK.
    I’ve said it before (often and no doubt irksomely to others here!) … How does he keep on doing it and always something fresh?!
    Many thanks, both and all.

47. I had nothing on my first pass so was feeling pretty gloomy, then I started again from 1 across and went with my gut feeling for 9a AMIN, without understanding the LAMINA bit. But at least now I had a toe-hold. I was unfamiliar with KEEPY-UPPY at 13d and while I knew Brighton Rock from Graham Greene, I didn’t know or understand BLACKPOOL ROCK at 8d, which I only got from the crossers.

    I also enjoyed CLARINET at 12a. I liked 25,15a OVER EASY, even though I don’t think it is a phrase we use in Australia, and 6d AMERICANO. Interesting coincidence in that beery hiker commented on last Friday’s Paul regarding AMERICANO, which was the most popular solution in Guardian puzzles in 2019!

    Thanks to Eileen for the explanations and links. [Unfortunately by clicking on one of the links, reading it and then closing my browser, I just lost my entire post – d’oh! -so this is a second draft.] And thanks to Paul for lots of fun.

    [I only responded to a couple of comments on yesterday’s Qaos this morning Aussie time; thanks to those folk who were part of yesterday’s forum.]

48. Solving some of Paul’s clues produces the same reaction in me as hearing a dreadful pun; I feel I should groan but can’t help laughing. JOE BLOGGS was a good example. ARMCHAIR, PRINCETON and of course MINUTE HANDS were favourites. KEEPY-UPPY would have worked better in the 80s, when the beastly upwardly mobiles seemed to be everywhere. Anyone old enough to remember George Formby’s “With my little stick of Blackpool rock”? He was accused of being SMUTTY, but of course it was all in the listener’s mind…

49. Took me a while to finish the NE corner,  not being familiar with BELL THE CAT and getting stuck on lav for loo rather than thinking of latrine.  Did not parse MARXISM but now see that I should have had no trouble. Never heard of KEEPY-UPPY but gettable from the clue. Thought of Brighton Rock before realising the letter count was wrong, so despite not having tasted it, not hard to come up with BLACKPOOL ROCK.  So, Eileen, despite the UK GK needed,  it didn’t hold me up particularly.

    Fav clue MINUTE HANDS.

    AC87@26, an AMERICANO is sort of equivalent to a long black, ie an espresso with extra hot water, (although I find that in America it frequently has too much water added, we are a bit fussy about our coffee here down under).

    Thanks to Paul for the fun and Eileen for the blog.

50. PS JinA, thinking of your post a few days ago, re words that are forever altered in your mind, at the time I could not think of an example, but my fav is the pink bird which is now always for me a burning circle.

51. Got the answer to 8D but missed the sticky reference, oddly enough, because one of my favourite joke sequences (which only works orally) *sounds* like this:
    What’s brown and sticky?… a stick.
    What’s brown and smelly and sounds like a bell? … dung!
    What’s brown and smelly and comes steaming out of cows? … the Isle of Wight ferry.

52. I have from time to time seen a cat with a bell on but never once in all my years considered that to BELL THE CAT might be a risky enterprise. Thankfully I summoned up Hecate from somewhere and got my LOI.
    That frustration aside, this wasn’t at all a bad Paul, and I do struggle with his rambling surfaces now and then. Few in evidence today, maybe 17a. CASTLE HOWARD and CLARINET among my faves. And thanks to the blog I now know what OVER EASY means, after it never being explained by a character in an American film.

53. Much as I loathe Trump, joining in with the body-shaming seems a little infantile, when there is so much else to criticise him about. Also, an armchair critic can be an amateur critic but can an amateur critic be an armchair?

    Minor points, in what I found to be a stiff test and mostly good fun.

    Thanks to Paul and Eileen

54. ngaiolaurenson@49 yes, exactly. My point was that many other coffees (e.g. cappucino, latte, macchiato, flat white…) all include steamed milk and therefore “hot and steamy” is a rather good description. An Americano doesn’t use steam In the making (but I’m sure a bit of steam normally wafts off the top anyway so I’m not too worried!)

55. [Now I understand my confusion about the music. Brideshead was shown under the Masterpiece Theater strand in the US, and they bunged on a generic opening to all their showings with music by Mouret. In the UK all we heard was the Burgon music]

56. [Mouret being quite “Purcellish” and Burgon not!]

57. Re AMERICANO, I also recall (at more or less the same time as the brunch described @40) a menu in Kathmandu listing “Weak American Coffee” (and in Glasgow airport, the “White Frothy Coffee” on the menu was “Cappuccino” on the till receipt).  My how times have changed.  (Though as Indie setter Bluth has noted his other incarnation, the arrival of drinkable coffee in the UK has coincided with the disappearance of drinkable tea.)

58. 2Scotcheggs @48 – that’s another link I very nearly gave – honestly!

    keyser soze @53  I think the definition of ARMCHAIR is ‘of an amateur critic?’, as underlined in the blog – that works for me.

59. Mark at 19

    I thought Paul meant he had a heart of gold – symbol AU – for 3d

    I’m a lockdown newbie – though I did go on a day-course given by Paul a few years ago. I never really followed it up, but have dug out the course notes,  got a few dictionaries and am (with the help of 15sq which he told us about) trying to learn.

    I found today’s tough –  really made use of the dictionaries and the “check this” button on the Guardian site – but I enjoyed it. Will keep on  trying.

60. A slow and steady solve with lots of good aha moments until I had just a few left, but I had no chance of getting BLACKPOOL ROCK. Doubly doomed, as I had never heard of either the candy or the badger’s nickname. Thought that ‘sweet and sticky’ might indicate some Asian RICE dish, but the check button disagreed. Also missed the unknown (to me) KEEPY-UPPY, being misled by ‘kid’ (yuppies may be young, but they’re definitely adults), but I suppose the clue is fair. Otherwise a lot of smiles, especially for MINUTE HANDS as others have mentioned. Thanks to Paul and Eileen.

    Regarding OVER EASY, that’s the only way I have ever heard the phrase. Mrs NCarolina will sometimes say it the other way around and then correct herself.

61. [Ian @57

    Nothing to do with the crossword, but you’ve reminded me – the market cafe in Blackburn used to offer “cappuccino”, but in case that wasn’t large enough, you could also buy a “muggaccino”!]

62. Fiona Anne @59: nice idea!  But be on the wrong side of one of Paul’s challenges – miss the wavelength as I did this morning – and you won’t be praising his heart of gold I assure you!

    Glad you’re getting the chance to put that training to good use and, yes, this site is really helpful to learners, if you can tolerate the occasional pedantry or good humoured (mostly) spat.  I think the check this button is a great half way house for a newbie: reassuring to know you’re on the right track and, if you’re not, you quite often end up with a slight steer.  Reveal is a last resort – though I used it more than once today!

63. Eileen @36. Thanks for the link to the Brideshead Revisited score of Geoffrey Burgon. There is also a Cumbrian composer Adrian Johnston with links to Brideshead Revisited music, but I have not listened to them.

    The music I was referring to was the music introducing Masterpiece Theatre broadcast in the US. This theme music is a fanfare composed by Jean-Joseph Mouret (1682-1738), which Alastair Cooke (of Letter from America fame) himself acknowledged in his intros.

    Somehow I confused the two since whenever I hear Mouret’s fanfare, I think of Brideshead. Here is a better link to the fanfare

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krEEDeErJHc

64. Eileen @39 – thanks for the link. I asked because a friend, who worked as PR manager for a theatre, used to bristle a bit when people said she worked in marketing. The company also had a marketing manager, who did a different job. I suppose they used marketing to mean advertising. The piece you linked to suggests that, while there is a clear distinction between public relations and advertising, each can be regarded as a subset of marketing.

65. Regarding OVER EASY:  it makes a bit more sense when you consider the alternatives, over medium and over well, all distinguishing the amount of time spent after the eggs are flipped.  (Yes I know the three modifiers are not in other contexts considered a scale, but that’s breakfast for you!)

66. Dr. WhatsOn @65 “over medium” and “over well” don’t help if you don’t know those either 🙂

67. Howard@65 of course!  I was just trying to give some context for which way round the words went, but on reflection those other phrases could have turned out backwards.  In any case, maybe some people are now aware of more ordering options, probably depending on where you live.

68. Says something about me when the FOI was MINUTE HANDS.   Toughie today, plenty of new words and phrases and a nice Carry-On smattering of filfth.   Ta muchly.

69. I found this quite slow-going for the most part, but kept slogging away because it was by Paul and he’s worth the effort. Knowing Paul’s penchant for risqué clues, Trump’s hands were not the first anatomical inadequacy that occurred to me (alas, thanks to Ms Daniels’ book, we all know far more about this than we ever needed to!) but the actual answer is neat, witty and clever. Unlike the 45th President.
    I also enjoyed SMUTTY and LASSIE – though with the latter, not being sure if it was 16A or 16D, I did spend a while considering Indian drinks that would suit a marxist…. hey ho
    Thanks to Paul, and to Eileen for the blog and all the entertaining links!

70. Hi Wellbeck @69

    Re the 16s: it’s rather odd but this point emerged only very recently and it has cropped up more than once since then. Apparently, it’s a convention – perfectly logical when you think about it but it had never occurred to me – that, when referring to another across clue in an across clue or a down one in a down clue, there is no need to specify (I’m sure there is a more elegant way of putting that) so here it’s 16ac that’s intended.

71. Thanks Eileen! Good to know…

72. Generally I enjoy Paul — he’s amusing, challenging, but ultimately doable. This crossword, however, was a brick wall for me — KEEPY-UPPY, JOE BLOGGS, CASTLE HOWARD, and BLACK POOL ROCK were answers I could never get because they’re foreign to me. And phrases I knew like BELL THE CAT had parsing that was beyond me. Thanks Eileen for the blog.

73. Eileen@36’s link is the one…that’s the Brideshead music we had when it ran on ABC TV here ..becoming, after so many episodes, indelibly imprinted! It’s not the Mouret, so I guess it’s the Adrian Johnston.

74. Those of you who have visited Castle Howard will know that most of the building is burnt out. The gardens and grounds are wonderful, though – the best rose garden I’ve ever seen (and I don’t like rose gardens….)

75. Hi grantinfreo @73

    Sorry, no – as Shirl @34 said, it’s by Burgon: it’s labelled as such on the link I gave @36.

76. Geoffrey Burgon wrote this wonderful theme tune too.

77. Many thanks muffin – I didn’t know that.

78. Thanks Eileen. I had done a bit of looking up earlier and got confused, and on your link I can only see a still of the castle, no text.

79. Oh yes I just replayed it and tapped the screen, and can now see the start of his name, Geoffr..

80. A pleasant and straightforward solve from Paul

    Flogging the dead horseof eating breakfast out, you’ll usually be asked how you like your eggs when you order.  The waiter, knowing the cook,will gladly   explain the options; OVER| EASY/ MEDIUM/HARD* designates a flip, and you ask for SUNNY SIDE UP for no flipping at all.

    Thanks to Eileen fo the  blog

81. Very tough puzzle for an American; certainly learnt a lot though! Thanks Paul and Eileen

82. Hi Jay in Pittsburgh

    I learned something too – about POTUS and how to order fried eggs. 😉

83. Irrespective of your view of Trump, physical attributes shouldn’t be the subject of disapprobation.  Please let’s not associate ‘inadequacy’ with any form of physical difference

84. Joseph @83 You are correct — belittling someone due to physical attributes is wrong but Mr. Trump has done this repeatedly to others. Some would say turnabout is fair play.

85. As I hadn’t parsed 9a properly, I spent some time trying to make the considerably older African AMUN (or alternative spellings AMON, AMEN) fit.

86. The self-proclaimed UK’s No.1 crossword setter… hmmm

87. Roderick@86
    No 1 in terms of quality is a matter of opinion but No 1 in terms of number of puzzles published is checkable and true.

88. Up here in Scotland keepy-uppy is fondly remembered as what Jim Baxter did with the ball outside the England box in the 1967 game at Wembley when Scotland beat the world champions.

    Hey, memories are all we have just now.

89. Probably for the record only this late in the thread, but, in his Crossword Zoom last night, Paul said that in 24a ‘collectible’ was an indication that ‘c’ and ‘a’ (‘classsic automobile originally’) should be inserted into the anagram and then the whole thing became an &lit. Or words to that effect. The Zoom (is that a noun, yet?) was a good chance to see other solvers and to sit at the feet of the master, although Paul was charming and sensitive to his audience throughout.

    Thanks both

90. Thanks for that, Tyngewick. That’s what I meant by my ‘an anagram (model) of T RANGE + the first letters (originally) of Classic Automobile’  – sorry if that wasn’t clear. I wasn’t able to join the Zoom, as I said on the blog, because we had a family Zoom Quiz yesterday evening.

91. Paul also agreed in his Zoom meeting that Lassie would work in the UK (and actually, it would work here in the US too) but (as it was pointed out…) it wouldn’t work in India because that isn’t how its pronounced there (I’m an American of Indian origin, BTW)!

    His Zoom sessions are so enjoyable.

     

92. yes, this non-UK solver was all but wiped out on this one. Fair enough, but i do have one complaint – a yuppie is not a “rich kid” – it stands for “Young Urban Professional.” Not quite the same thing.

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