I have a couple of clues from yesterday’s DP that have stumped me.
I’ve put the answers in the comments so that you can have a go answering the clues yourselves.
2 down: Popularity assessments made by sailors (7)
3 down: Bear to get jockey upset (4)
I have a couple of clues from yesterday’s DP that have stumped me.
I’ve put the answers in the comments so that you can have a go answering the clues yourselves.
2 down: Popularity assessments made by sailors (7)
3 down: Bear to get jockey upset (4)
2 down: RATINGS (I assume it’s a reference to ranks in nautical vessels, in which case it hasn’t been worded well).
3 down: POOH — huh?
2D seems OK to me. Ratings is a reasonably common term for the non-officers on a ship.
Can’t help with 3D, I’m afraid. The bear part is ok, but “to get jockey upset” doesn’t make any sense to me. It can’t be just the name of a jockey I haven’t heard of, can it? I don’t know DP well enough to say whether he’d use this rather than “Bear upset jockey”.
3D: what I said it can’t be is what it is. Hoop is Aussie slang for jockey, apparently.
See recent headline. You have to search for “hoop”…
http://www.foxsports.com.au/other-sports/horse-racing/leading-jockey-shane-scriven-suspended-for-five-months-for-stealing-rival-hoops-whip-during-race/story-e6frf41l-1226042872131
DP usually piece of piss. Is he positioning himself for a shot at the title?
Wow, a hoop… who’d a thunk it?
Thanks a bunch.
DP can be funny sometimes and every now and again does a mini-theme, as was yesterday’s, but I don’t think DP is aiming for DA.