Got my subscriber copy and, as I always do at some point, had a go at the crossword.
Usually, by stored-in-brain trivia and shameless cheating on That Interweb, I manage to complete it every month. This time I’m stuck on just one final question:
57-Across, “Cliff, UK folkie prominent in the ’60s scene” (7).
I have “A_N_I_R” but have not a clue who it is and cannot find anything in Wikipedia etc.
The answers for the letters I have there are correct, I’m absolutely sure.
Help!
mikethep says
Aungier, that’ll be. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/cliff-aungier-mn0000788804/biography
Mike_H says
Thanks, Mike.
Hate it when I can’t complete the Mojo or Uncut crosswords.
Especially so if it’s just the one answer that’s needed.
hubert rawlinson says
@Mike_H do you send them in? Tried to find their rules but to no avail. Do they exist?
metal mickey says
Some years ago I won an iPod and tickets to the IOW festival so it’s not a scam!
Mike_H says
I never bother sending them in. I just like to have completed them.
There are prizes.
Sometimes things that I’d quite like, so maybe I should.
This month they’re offering a replica of the EMI TG2-500 microphone pre-amp module used in the Abbey Road studio consoles, plus some Abbey Road “1966” swag (T-shirt, tote bag, notebook and mug) incorporating Klaus Voorman’s “Revolver” artwork.
Previous issues have given rather nice-looking guitars etc. as prizes.
Instructions above the puzzle, on the page. With a link to their site for the full entry rules.
Baron Harkonnen says
I`ve looked at the rules and Rule 25 (c) No entries containing answers from the internet allowed.
bricameron says
Only two comments. I can hijack this . The sceptre that we hold aloft is clear in its meaning.
Mike_H says
Is that a Humber Sceptre? A Mk II?
A fine-looking car in it’s day (with fins, of course) but prone to rusting to buggery, like all the other British cars at that time. My mate John had a maroon one when we lived in Wales. Drank oil like you wouldn’t believe but cruised about those Welsh country lanes most agreeably.
mikethep says
My mate had a 1956 Humber Super Snipe – brilliant mobile party wagon. How we didn’t die I’ve no idea.
But we’re playing Bri’s game, aren’t we. This thread was only ever going to be 3 entries long – question, answer, thanks for answer.
Avast!
Johnny Concheroo says
But don’t you think this is the kind of thread that really takes us back to our Rootes?
mikethep says
The Ryton’s certainly pretty good.
Johnny Concheroo says
I was hoping to Dodge that one
mikethep says
I got that Imp-ression.
Johnny Concheroo says
Every full-stop and Commer in the right place as always, I see.
mikethep says
Not yet over the hill, man.
Johnny Concheroo says
I was hoping miniB would join in, but that little minx is probably still asleep
Mike_H says
The rapier wit of those contributions has cast a sun beam into this morning
Johnny Concheroo says
And most of our favourite singers are no longer moving like gazelles, I daresay,
mikethep says
And pretty husky first thing in the morning, I shouldn’t wonder.
Johnny Concheroo says
I’ll be watching this thread like a Hawk. Until it goes out of Vogue, that is.
mikethep says
Bri will just have to hunternother thread to hijack.
bricameron says
Thanks for playing along.
Freddy Steady says
Lotus pray.