After seven wins, Tony and Julie have lost to the Dastardly Doctor this week! Here are the full clues and answers... Clue 1: Irish lake town Treason to kill this bird? …in the outcome of a day’s shooting. Find a chilly place upstairs. Irish lake is a LOUGH. Town could be a BOROUGH = LOUGHBOROUGH. Until 1998 it was treason to kill a SWAN. On a film set, the film shot in the course of a day is known as THE RUSHES – the production team will watch “the rushes” in the evening. This leads us to THE SWAN IN THE RUSHES PUB. The clue is hidden in the fridge in the upstairs bar. Clue 2: More savage creator of American small town. Essence, aloofness opposite vapour brass. Find your clue Beneath a box for Billy’s bird. More savage is WILDER – which points us to the American playwright THORNTON WILDER, famous for his play Our Town, set in an imaginary small town. This gives us THORNTON. Essence is NATURE. Aloofness is RESERVE. Vapour is STEAM and brass could be a brass instrument such as a TRUMPET – leading us to the nature reserve at Thornton Gardens opposite the Steam Trumpet pub. The clue is attached to the bottom of a telegraph pole that has a kestrel box on it – Billy is a reference to BILLY CASPAR, the young boy who tamed a kestrel in the book A KESTREL FOR A KNAVE and the film KES. Clue 3: Village where Zachary once recovered. Déjà vu for Julie! In a knockdown dolly’s hut – Find a stage that sticks out. Zachary is a reference to the ZACHARY MERTON CONVALESCENCE HOME, a 1930s building in WOODHOUSE EAVES, which is now in disrepair. This gives us WOODHOUSE EAVES. Déjà vu for Julie is simply a reference to the fact that it’s a scarecrow festival – and Julie was at one last week. A knockdown dolly is an AUNT SALLY – from the old fairground game. A hut is a shack – AUNT SALLY’S SHACK is serving refreshments in the village hall annex. The bit of a stage that sticks out is known as the APRON – the clue will be pinned to the apron of a member of staff. Clue 4: Both Arsenal and Leicester City on the sign for this village. Jeremy’s about artist pigment. Go left-field, hit… Then search Archie at the tenth. The badge for Arsenal is an artillery gun, the badge for LCFC is a fox – and both symbols feature on the village sign for EAST GOSCOTE, which was built on the site of an old army ordnance depot. Jeremy’s about is a reference to Jeremy BEADLE – and there’s a type of artist pigment called LAKE, as in Crimson Lake, This gives us BEEDLES LAKE. To the word GO add LF, which in American football is used as an abbreviation for Left Field. To hit is to CLUB – leading you to a GOLF CLUB. Archie is a reference to the US sitcom character ARCHIE BUNKER, from All in the Family, based on Till Death Do Us Part (Archie Bunker is the Alf Garnet character). The clue is in the bunker on the TENTH HOLE. Clue 5: Memorably, town for comestibles. Space for tango… Where a battlefield gets mixed up, Look under feet. Memorably town is an anagram of MELTON MOWBRAY – comestibles are food, and it’s known as Leicestershire’s food town. The Food Festival is underway this weekend. Space is ROOM. Tango is the letter T – you’re looking for a TEA ROOM. There, you need to find BOSWORTH JUMBLES – Bosworth is a battlefield, and to mix up is to jumble. These are a kind of S-shaped biscuit said to be eaten by Richard III himself (not these actual ones). The clue will be under a plate – in cockney rhyming slang, feet are PLATES (of meat).
Posted on: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 11:01:36 +0000
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