Comments on: Rough DA (14th of November edition)

By: haiku

haiku — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:02:14 +0000

“Range” is indeed used for “oven”. And the “twinkling” explanation looks right as well.

By: NC

NC — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:55:39 +0000

I mean of course that I took two whole days to get this DA out.

The (tiny) Wikipedia article on SP bookmaking informs that SP stands for “starting price” but does actually mean set price or fixed odds.

By: NC

NC — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:45:45 +0000

3 down: Maybe flash = twinkling; and two almost = tw; so two almost abandoned flash = tw abandoned (from) twinkling = inkling. But I’m not sure.

14 down: Could rearrange = rear range? Rear = back, certainly. And if the thing over stove top burners is called a range hood, then maybe the burner is called a range? That’s my guess anyway.

Got this one out Saturday evening solo, so I’m pretty pleased. It’s been a while between drinks.

By: Andy Livemore

Andy Livemore — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:23:27 +0000

re 3 down: two almost is tw (minus o).Then “tw”abandoning “flash”or “twinkling” gives “inkling”

By: AS

AS — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:52:52 +0000

Nice work, haiku, very nice work.

And I very much like your explanation for inkling, so much so that I think it should be considered the definitive solution.

The only explanation left is back burner.

Any ideas?

And I can’t believe I missed “deafen”.

By: haiku

haiku — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:40:49 +0000

… and could “abandoned flash” be wink = flash and abandoned = fling and the “two almost” require removing the first letters? Not sure about this though.

By: haiku

haiku — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:25:40 +0000

PM = Curtin. Less can = tin gives you cur.

Skied ball = “prom” backwards

SP bookies (I think SP = set price were illegal for a long time in certain states

quiet = “sh!” happening = “event”, hence seventh

assassin = Killer. Lose the edges and you have ille. Cracked = quipped as in joke.

Help out = succour. Spoken = sucker. Pleased as punch is a proverb.

astriDE A FENce has “tenants” – you don’t see these often from DA

nerve = hide, sounds like Heid, plus a single (1 = I)

1000 = K plus the letters of kilo van has

tie = link. Clip off the K and then reverse it to get nil