Guardian Prize 29,637 by Brockwell

64 comments on “Guardian Prize 29,637 by Brockwell”

1. 

   Zoot

   #1 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 00:14

   
   

   Re 17d I think the capitalization of Courage is a reference to the once well-known brewery.

2. 

   Antonknee

   #2 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 00:15

   
   

   I took 17 Across as a simple double definition, those that lack courage are bottlers too!

   I really enjoyed this one, a neat set of clues, and plenty of misdirection made it a solid solve.

   Sleeves was neat with the two golfers reversed, and I wasn’t sure about blimey meaning well.

   Thanks BandC

3. 

   Judge

   #3 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 00:16

   
   

   I thoroughly enjoyed this puzzle. Sometimes themes can be a bit of a distraction but I loved this one. At one point, I thought every answer was green-themed but I think some would be a bit of a stretch. For 17d I think it’s just that people who lack the courage to do something are said to be “bottlers”.
   Favourite clue by far was CYNTHIA ERIVO. For anyone who hasn’t enjoyed her performance, a little moment here.
   Thanks Brockwell and Cineraria

4. 

   KVa

   #4 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 00:23

   
   

   BOTTLERS Looks like a double def (Edit: Antonkee@2 has said that before me).

   Liked BEAN and SEVERE.

   Excellent puzzle and great blog.
   Thanks Brockwell and Cineraria.

5. 

   Biggles A

   #5 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 00:23

   
   

   Thanks Cineraria. I initially thought this was going to be a stroll in the park when a better than average number of answers revealed themselves early on but a sterner test awaited with some clever constructions. I enjoyed it but I’d just observe that there seems to be rather too many instances recently of proper names, people I’ve never heard of before and am unlikely ever to hear of again.
   I missed out on quite a few examples of the extended theme so thanks for that. At the risk of oversimplification I thought 17d was just a double definition, ‘possibly’ an indication that the people who put beer in bottles are likely to have produced it and ‘bottle = loss of nerve. .

6. 

   Cineraria

   #6 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 00:33

   
   

   With regard to 17D: I am American, so I am well aware that UK idioms elude me sometimes. I thought that the expression “hasn’t got bottle” = “lacks courage,” which would imply that “bottle” = “courage”? But “bottle it” = “lose one’s nerve”? If the natives think that this is a double definition, I can accept that interpretation. At least I was in the ballpark. I think that Zoot@1 also adds a perspective that I was unaware of.

7. 

   KVa

   #7 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 00:38

   
   

   Stimulated by beer in extremity (10) ….Interestingly, we had this clue in last week’s Quiptic.

8. 

   grantinfreo

   #8 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 00:40

   
   

   Totally forgot AC/DC meaning bi-, d’oh, and didn’t know the lioness’s name, so made a bit of ameal out of the NW. Other dnks were Erivo, the Scandi band and Banks the goalie. So, a bit of a slog, but enjoyed it too, ta both.

9. 

   WordSDrove

   #9 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 00:52

   
   

   Due to other commitments, I haven’t been able to comment in the past few weeks. I found this a very engaging and intelligent puzzle. I missed several of the Green references; thanks to Cineraria for that. In fact, I wasn’t sure that Green was the right answer for 16ac (which I tackled first along with 19d), till the other solutions confirmed it. Thanks again to Brockwell and Cineraria

10. 

    Martyn

    #10 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 01:14

    
    

    What grantinfreo@8 wrote. Ditto for GERI. Favourites were LIME, ELITE, and EPILEPSY (even I knew PELE!)

    Thanks Brockwell and Cineraria

11. 

    Charlie

    #11 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 01:26

    
    

    I thought this was probably the best themed gridfill I’d seen for ages, although there’s another recent puzzle by this setter which could take that accolade too. I was particularly pleased to see some 21st-century references. I saw the musical a few years ago and liked that it rhymed 21a with “absurd degree”.

    T Hanks for the blog Cineraria – I didn’t think to include IDEA. I think we can add ALGERIAN to the list given that half its flag is green. 🇩🇿

    [Edit: Oh, my old chameleon avatar has appeared. Apologies that it hasn’t changed colour for the occasion]

12. 

    Dr. WhatsOn

    #12 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 01:40

    
    

    Surprised to find I finished in one session as opposed to my usual 2 or 3 for the harder Prizes, since there were several hard clues (imo).

    After filling the grid I had to stare for a couple of minutes until I fully figured out EPILEPSY and ENVIOUS. Even then I thought them hard. Likewise ROYKSOPP. I had learned some Norwegian once for a trip that never happened, and kept it up somewhat from watching a lot of Scandi Noir, but all that was of minimal use here. I made the most plausibly pronounceable word, which turned out to be correct, but was not happy to have to have guessed.

    BIBLE BELT was also not obvious, but very clever. I got the Banks part of BEEKEEPER right away, but I don’t think it fair for younger or non-UK solvers as there was no hint.

    Cluing BOTTLERS as the people who make beer (yes I see there is a “possibly”) made me wonder how often in practice they are one and the same. I have no clue – my expertise is at the other end of the beer’s life-cycle.

13. 

    Julie in Australia

    #13 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 02:45

    
    

    Great puzzle! Thanks to Brockwell and Cineraria. Lots of ticks. 25a EMERALD was my top favourite. Needed a few explanations and had to look up Norwegian bands to get 18a ROYSKOPP, so technically i cheated that one. A fun theme though I needed the blog and comments to realise just how many green references there were!

14. 

    FrankieG

    #14 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 03:43

    
    

    {7a,12d: Cracked Actor – also with italicization misdirection – is a David Bowie song (1973), and a BBC Omnibus documentary (1975, Golden) about him.
    [Here’s a different song from Aladdin Sane that’s more appropriate to the theme: “Poor little GREENie“.]}

15. 

    Pelham Barton

    #15 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 04:58

    
    

    [Some years ago, we considered the Chomsky quote given in the blog under 9ac as if it were a crossword clue. Here is my “solution”:
    https://www.fifteensquared.net/2010/12/26/general-discussion/#comment-175288
    I hope people will not mind my mentioning it here.]

16. 

    Fiona

    #16 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 06:00

    
    

    Held up in the NE after entering ASTUTE for 5d although I wan’t really sure about it. Finally got BIBLE BELT, amended 5d to SEVERE and then got the rest.

    Liked: SLEEVES, EPILEPSY, STEALING, VIABLE, ALGERIAN, SHANK

    Thanks Brockwell and Cineraria

17. 

    Woody

    #17 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 06:15

    
    

    After I had filled in KERMIT (whose performance of “It’s not easy being Green'” I now can’t get out of my head) and GREEN I smiled a big smile when I noticed the theme applied to several answers I had already completed.

    I also liked the misdirection in Police Chief and Keeper for Sting and Gordon Banks.

    Great fun and a clever theme, particularly as the solution will be in the Guardian print edition on St Patrick’s day.

18. 

    KeithS

    #18 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 06:17

    
    

    JinA@13, if you don’t have Norwegian bands at your fingertips (and I don’t) and ROYSKOPP is going to be clued as an anagram then you’ll end up guessing and Googling to check or you can just Google ‘Norwegian Bands’ and get it over in one go. I did and I don’t feel bad about it. I’m also enough of a cultural desert that I didn’t know CYNTHIA ERIVO (although I keep being told I should see Wicked) but there I managed to guess the anagram given enough crossers. I have to say I very much enjoyed this very green crossword. Thanks both.

19. 

    Roz

    #19 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 06:19

    
    

    Thanks for the blog and all the extra green references , excellent puzzle with many neat clues . I will pick out SHANK for the disguised capital of Big, ENVIOUS that flows so nicely and BEAN for the symmetrical fission .
    We have Gordon Banks ( KEEPER ) and Pele in the grid with approximate positions for the save of the century . Do not like football but Banks was a local hero .

20. 

    gladys

    #20 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 06:20

    
    

    There are also the Ten Green BOTTLErS of course. Thanks, Cineraria, I missed several of the green references, and failed to parse BIBLE BELT. I like Brockwell’s up to date answers, even if it means I don’t know CYNTHIA ERIVO (or her green connections) and discover after a while that I can’t spell ROYKSOPP (I thought it was ROYSKOPP: I’ve never heard it said). This took me quite a while, but it wasn’t a slog. I liked the two golfers and the Police chief, and eventually remembered that not all lionesses are called Elsa.

21. 

    Jay

    #21 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 06:22

    
    

    EVER (-green) and TEAL are hiding in 5d and 2d. Brockwell said last weekend that there were 20 themers, and I think that gets the total to 20.
    Great fun, thanks to Brockwell and Cineraria.

22. 

    Xchurchbob

    #22 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 06:24

    
    

    Great puzzle. Kicking myself for not getting Shank, especially as I was watching a Greenshank yesterday. Thanks to you both.

23. 

    Roz

    #23 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 06:28

    
    

    [ We have two clues , BEAN and SEVERE that involve splitting a single word . I have used Playtex for this in my diary for over 25 years , plus Gossard for two words pushed together . This is not L&S which was coined for two words already separate and I do not see the point . Recently there have been complaints on here so I will stop using these terms , I toyed with cleavage but some may misconstrue my geological meaning and it does work both ways so does not distinguish between the two . In future I will use fission and fusion . ]

24. 

    paddymelon

    #24 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 06:58

    
    

    Roz@23. I love fission and fusion. Even as a non physicist I get that. I hope they take on.

25. 

    Etu

    #25 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 07:17

    
    

    I’ll take on fission and fusion too.

    It’s interesting that something indivisible e.g. a chair, cup, or an atom of a given element can nonetheless be fissile, i.e broken into pieces.

    (A chair is indivisible in that there’s no such thing as a half-chair, which can comfortably seat a half-person, just as there’s no such thing as a half-atom of iron, which can be oxidised to form a half-molecule of rust.)

    Many thanks all – I found this as hard as the recent Enigmatist Prize.

26. 

    AkivaCat101

    #26 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 07:31

    
    

    Loved the puzzle, the theme, the blog and the comments. Can’t help asking – is “WICKED” perhaps disguised in the perimeter? With its lead actress, city and colour all in the grid, it seemed too good to be a coincidence!

27. 

    PostMark

    #27 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 08:07

    
    

    I didn’t quite fill the grid this time last week, the Wicked actress being unknown to me and the trick in SEVERE, similar to a device occasionally used by Philistine, defeated me. I spotted the theme but not all its components stuck out as green; reading the blog and comments has elucidated further and I should not be surprised at how dense a grid fill Brockwell achieved; he has done this before. Splendid job.

    Thanks Brockwell and Cineraria

28. 

    Jorge Ramon

    #28 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 08:21

    
    

    I found this enjoyably tough. Like others, I had to resort to brute-force methods to get the Norwegian band, but have given them a listen, and they’re not bad. May I add that, as a goalkeeper, Gordon Banks often wore a green jersey? I do wonder how much longer Seve and Els can continue to be used to represent golfers – they’ve not been current for quite a while.

29. 

    Roz

    #29 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 08:42

    
    

    Jorge@28 a chance to show my vast knowledge of football , green for Stoke City , yellow for England ( I will admit to taking advice on this ) .
    Thanks PDM@24 , it works for biology as well .

30. 

    MuddyThinking

    #30 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 09:05

    
    

    BIBLE BELT and VIABLE eluded me but otherwise I very much enjoyed this. Loved IDEA when the de-tailed penny finally dropped. Gordon BANKS was a childhood hero of mine so BEEKEEPERS was FOI, but I don’t think he is ever mentioned nowadays so even soccer fans might miss the reference. Happy GREEN St. Paddy’s weekend all!

31. 

    GrahamH

    #31 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 09:13

    
    

    [Roz@29 forthe aforementioned save of the century, Pele wore yellow and Banks was in blue.]

32. 

    MinG

    #32 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 09:25

    
    

    It’s a blow to the Oscars self esteem to see that so many people here have no knowledge of Cynthia Erivo when she has been all over the papers (the Guardian included) as a nominee for Best Actress in the awards given only 2 weeks ago! I sometimes think , if only solvers read the Guardian instead of just turning to the crossword page they might have fewer gaps in their general knowledge.

33. 

    Shirl

    #33 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 09:26

    
    

    Re 17d: In the bad old days when brewers owned many pubs, my locality was a Courage stronghold. So finding other beers wasn’t easy. Now Courage have been taken over by a bigger brewery.

34. 

    MinG

    #34 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 09:38

    
    

    PS I got Röyksopp because they were one of my daughter’s favourite bands but scuppered my chances of completion by opting for NIGERIAN, not knowing the lioness but recognising the Spice Girl.

35. 

    mrpenney

    #35 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 10:03

    
    

    I saw only about two-thirds of the GREEN answers when I did this last week, further proof that I shouldn’t be blogging these. And no, I had heard of neither the Norwegian band (which I think is understandable) nor the actress (which is not, but then again, I’ve reached the age when we don’t get out to the movies much; also, when I saw the stage version of Wicked (in its first Chicago residency, not on Broadway) I found it pretty mid, as the kids say these days, so I had little interest in the movie, which says more about me than the movie; also, this is the longest sentence I’ve written in a long time, so I see no reason to edit it to ruin that record).

36. 

    mrpenney

    #36 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 10:34

    
    

    My cheeky long sentence there prevented me from saying that I solved this kind of backwards. VERT was obvious to me from the wordplay, and the cross reference made it obvious that the central entry must be GREEN, and the cross reference there made KERMIT pretty easy. So sometimes the interlinked clues make puzzles easier rather than harder, if you’re onto the game at least.

37. 

    Eileen

    #37 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 10:37

    
    

    I’m too late to add anything to the praise showered on this super puzzle from Brockwell. I was going to say that it was the green bottles, which we sang about on innumerable coach trips, that occurred to me but I see that gladys has already done that.

    I’m not a great football fan but, MuddyThinking @30, ‘keeper’ automatically calls to my mind either Gordon Banks or Peter Shilton, who both played for my home team, Leicester City, though not in green shirts. And, Jorge Ramon @28, I don’t know much about golf, either, but I will never forget the lovely Seve, although he was not the only reason that the brilliant 8ac was at the top of my list of favourites.

    I won’t list the (many) others: as in most Brockwell puzzles, the whole is more than the sum of its parts – an amazing gridfill, as many others have said, one that repaid several return visits, which is what I enjoy in a Prize puzzle. I missed out on green idea (thanks for your reminiscence, Pelham Barton @15) and, like Xchurchbob, I’m kicking myself for not thinking of greenshank, when I’m so familiar with redshank.

    Huge thanks to Brockwell for a lovely puzzle and to Cineraria for a blog to match.

38. 

    Wellbeck

    #38 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 10:42

    
    

    Worth it just for KERMIT, SLEEVES,
    VERDIGRIS and EMERALD – with ELITE as a close runner-up.
    Didn’t notice all the greens, though. Should have done, but I didn’t.
    Many thanks Brockwell and cineraria

39. 

    Antonknee

    #39 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 10:49

    
    

    I think Brockwell was being kind to us with ROYKSOPP, by saying Norwegian, it could easily have said just band or similar! I happen to like Royksopp, and it does make a change to have more variety in the answers.

40. 

    sheffield hatter

    #40 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 10:54

    
    

    I’m pretty hopeless on popular culture, and have never heard of Wicked or CYNTHIA ERIVO, or the lioness in 4d. I got ROYKSOPP wrong (as it seems did some other commenters above), with the S and K in the wrong places, so missed out on KERMIT too. I should know ‘Big star’ as I think this has been done before, but reckon I have a bit of a blind spot with T HANKS!

    Altogether it’s a bit discouraging to find that something I struggled with is described by the blogger as a “pleasant diversion”. Perhaps I should stick to killer sudoku in future. 😄

41. 

    poc

    #41 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 11:33

    
    

    Got there in the end but couldn’t parse BIBLE BELT nor EPILEPSY (‘eye’ = PI seems rather a stretch). I did enjoy the theme though. I agree with others that 17d is pretty clearly a double definition.

42. 

    Lord Jim

    #42 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 11:36

    
    

    My biggest ticks were for SLEEVES (brilliant to get both of crosswordland’s favourite golfers in there) and STEALING (for the “Police chief”). I failed to fully pass EPILEPSY as I couldn’t see why “eye” = PI, and I still think it’s a bit of a stretch. Is “private eye” often shortened to “eye”? But that’s a minor point, overall a great puzzle.

    Many thanks Brockwell and Cineraria.

    (You beat me to it on the PI point, poc!)

43. 

    Simon S

    #43 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 11:47

    
    

    Thanks Brockwell and Cineraria

    I wonder of there may be an extended trail in 13: PI = Private Investigator = Private Eye = magazine commonly referred to as “The Eye”?

44. 

    Cineraria

    #44 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 11:47

    
    

    For 13A: One definition for “eye” in Chambers is “a private eye.” There was a rather hip US detective show in the early 1960s called Hawaiian Eye, sort of a forerunner to Hawaii Five-O and Magnum, P.I.

45. 

    Martin Scribbler

    #45 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 11:57

    
    

    Lovely puzzle. I didn’t have a problem with EYE for P.I., since I’m old enough to remember the TV shows “Hawaiian Eye” and “Public Eye”, but I thought “Blimey” for “well” was a stretch. LIME had to be the answer but it went in unparsed. Thanks to Brockwell and Cineraria.

46. 

    bodycheetah

    #46 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 11:59

    
    

    Somehow managed a complete theme bypass but thoroughly enjoyed this. Top ticks for SEVERE, LIME and RÖYKSOPP – I have their Melody AM album which made the clue so easy

    Cheers B&C

47. 

    Grecian

    #47 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 12:04

    
    

    Many thanks to Cineraria for an excellent blog and to everyone else for posting comments on the puzzle. I am delighted that it has gone down so well. I wrote this shortly after seeing Wicked at the cinema and was determined to get Cynthia Erivo into a puzzle – she really is an amazing actress and singer. All of the green things have been spotted, apart from one. Who is the person that looks after the course for Seve and Ernie? ⛳️ 😉 All the best, B

48. 

    gladys

    #48 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 12:04

    
    

    Seve and Ernie Els would be playing on a GREEN…

    MinG@32: you can read lots of Guardian articles but not take much interest in the Oscars and similar luvvie-fests.

    Grecian@47: I hadn’t seen your post.

49. 

    Cynicalwasteofspace

    #49 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 12:06

    
    

    I mean, I’ve heard of Royskopp, and got it right, but I still think it’s an unreasonably niche bit of GK

50. 

    Cynicalwasteofspace

    #50 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 12:08

    
    

    @47 : greenkeeper

51. 

    Dr. WhatsOn

    #51 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 12:31

    
    

    The RØYK part of the band name is related to the German rauchen, that some may have encountered in Rauchen Verboten. I mention this because I’m synaesthetic, and both words are green.

52. 

    JohnJB

    #52 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 14:47

    
    

    I didn’t finish the RHS, so finally gave up and turned to Cineraria’s blog. I couldn’t bring myself to enter EPILEPSY (Didn’t get PI for EYE). I should have got BOTTLERS (common enough usage) and a few others on the RHS. I got the well-posted theme after a while, but regrettably missed Woody @17’s connection to Monday 17th, despite receiving a St Patrick’s day card in the post (family tradition). I worked out the obscure GK in 7ac and 18ac from the clues, crossers and web tools. So overall, an engaging puzzle. Glad it went down so well.

53. 

    H.W. Messenger

    #53 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 18:43

    
    

    Liked the “finally shared” in 14 down. What a difference one letter makes to a definition. I’m strictly Athanasian myself.

54. 

    Pauline in Brum

    #54 - Sat 15th Mar 25, 19:15

    
    

    I really did enjoy this. Many thanks to Brockwell for a real treat and to Cineraria for an excellent blog. Forty shades of green just in time for St Paddy’s day ☘️. Impossible to pick favourites – just too many. I did like the fission clues – well done Ros for the new terminology, I hope it catches on. I enjoyed listening to Röyskopp thanks to bc@46 for the link.

55. 

    Adrian

    #55 - Sun 16th Mar 25, 00:55

    
    

    I agree with whoever said that looking things up isn’t cheating. Simon on “Cracking the Cryptic” chooses not to look things up or use aids, but that’s simply his choice.

56. 

    H.W. Messenger

    #56 - Sun 16th Mar 25, 07:14

    
    

    Ooops! Wrong puzzle comment at 53. Sorry.

57. 

    Benpointer

    #57 - Sun 16th Mar 25, 08:15

    
    

    Enjoyable solve for us – missed half of the green references and we’d certainly never heard of RÖYKSOPP (which felt rather too esoteric).

    Thank-you Brockwell and Cineraria

    As an aside, could someone confirm which dictionary we should buy so that we have the ‘official’ reference – several answers from this week’s prize were not in our Concise Oxford English. Thanks!

58. 

    poc

    #58 - Sun 16th Mar 25, 08:42

    
    

    Benpointer@57: As far as I know there is no “official” dictionary, but Chambers is often cited to justify a definition, or to complain if one isn’t there.

59. 

    AP

    #59 - Sun 16th Mar 25, 08:59

    
    

    A very engaging puzzle. I liked STING as the Police chief, SLEEVE, KERMIT and EPILEPSY; and I was wise to the trick in ACUTE, but I couldn’t parse BIBLE or KIT. I took too long to spot the parsing of LIME though I knew what I was looking for; similarly for HANKS, my LOI

    Like mrpenny@36 I solved this backwards. And great observation from Woody@17. Sláinte!

60. 

    Nakamova

    #60 - Sun 16th Mar 25, 18:30

    
    

    Lots of fun. Got there in the end, but held up by putting SLIME in for 12A. It is one synonym of cream (albeit a rarer one) and it fits the clue SLIM + E.

61. 

    Marser

    #61 - Mon 17th Mar 25, 09:54

    
    

    Once again, a bit late to the party, but I could not let Brockwell’s wonderful puzzle pass without comment. A few straightforward clues led to a real meaty body with many outstanding clues and devices. We seldom see themes but, on completing the grid, thought immediately of ‘green’ and ‘music’. Cineraria’s excellent blog completed our own parsings, with Bible Belt & epilepsy as well as supplying many more green references than we had managed. But, what about the music?

    The word ‘band’ occurs twice in the clues and many words, usually with a capital letter, reference bands (listed in order): Cracked, Actor(s), Two, Perfect, AC/DC, South, Last, cream, Triumph, Stag, Immature, Seedhead, Crypt, spooky, Young, King, George, Well, Ouse, Hollywood, LA, REM, Stones, Police, Spice Girl(s), Acute, French, (Mr)Big, City, Brilliant, United, Beer, Courage, Leader(s), Climber(s), oxygen, Look.
    There are also bands in the answers: Wing(s), Royksopp, Batik, Verdigris, Shank, Bottlers; as well as singers/ composers: Cynthia Erivo, (Robson) Green, Sting, Geri (Halliwell) with yet more in the clues: (James) Last, (Neil)Young, (Tom) Barman, (Boy)George), (Jillian) Banks.
    Further musical references are (record) sleeves, EP & EPs in 13a, River (dance) in 24a, Barman (as a composer) in 21a, (Frankie Goes to) Hollywood in 25a.

    Finally, to complete this listing of 60(not completely separate and perhaps a little tenuous) references, there is also a band named Green, which therefore applies to both themes! To quote Tom Lehrer, ‘there may be many others but they haven’t been discovered!’

    AkivaCat101 @26 seems a good idea but a step inside is needed for the K.

    Once again, many thanks to B and C.

62. 

    sheffield hatter

    #62 - Mon 17th Mar 25, 17:46

    
    

    Marser@61. I applaud your research on band names – or did you know them all? 🤔

    Not wishing to rain on your parade, but it has been mentioned on this site many times that almost any word can turn out to be the name of a band. To mention a few of my favourites: Man, If, Wolf, Chelsea, the Rumour, the Zombies and – drum roll – the Band!

63. 

    Lord Jim

    #63 - Mon 17th Mar 25, 18:45

    
    

    Marser and sheffield hatter: yes, any almost word can be the name of a band, or of course, as we discussed a little while ago, the name of a font. Following that discussion I have occasionally, just out of curiosity, checked this on odd puzzles, and there has always turned out to be a fonts theme 🙂

64. 

    sheffield hatter

    #64 - Mon 17th Mar 25, 19:48

    
    

    Thanks Jim@63. I’d forgotten about fonts.

    There are so many company names too, such as Apple, Octopus and Virgin, seemingly made up out of thin air in an attempt to avoid any contamination with, you know, capitalism, that it makes looking for themes seem like a waste of time. 😜

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