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[olivia]

on a tour of england, the route which includes towns, villages hotels etc and attractions we are stuck with the following:-

1. BAGPIPE COMPOSITIONS, AN OPENING

2. NOTE, TIME OF LIGHT,TO REFLECT IN SILENCE, HESITATION BY SPEAKER

3. MIX TOGETHER - TO PUT TO SOME PURPOSE, THE INDEFINITE ARTICLE AND AN INNKEEPER

all the above are in the area between chichester and portsmouth

[crofter]

3 is SOUTHSEA

 - an anagram of USE + A + HOST!

[crofter]

Olivia, I may not be able to give you the complete answer to No. 2 (I don't know the area well enough) but you are looking for  MUSEUM = MUSE + UM - possibly with the word DAY appearing somewhere! APPERARING SOMEWHERE!

[johnalex]

D-Day Museum (Thanks to Crofter  -  now let's crack No.2!)

[johnalex]

Correction, No.1 !!

[crofter]

Thanks for the gentle nudge, johnalex. I didn't realise just how close I was!

As for the last clue. Once you realise that the "opening" is simply MOUTH the rest is plain sailing! Though I did have to check up that the missing segment does indeed mean "bagpipe compositions"!

[olivia]

sorry crofter but either I,m getting senile or my dictionary need ammending, I cant find the word for bagpipe composition

[crofter]

olivia. You're doing it again! As you yourself state, the answer's close to PORTSMOUTH!! Why don't you look up the weird and wonderful meanings of the word PORT?

[johnalex]

Well done Crofter for solving the riddle of the bagpipes. I was preoccupied with 'gate' for an opening but it didn't open for me.  No match for 'port' in Collins or Oxford, in the context of bagpipes.  Which ref are you using?

[crofter]

johnalex, I was using a very old (and well thumbed)edition of Chambers (7th ed.). It gives eight entries under "port". The second entry reads "an instrumental tune: a bagpipe composition - [Gael]"

Note: I am a little afraid that the two Hotels remaining will defy solution!

[johnalex]

Thank you Crofter for your reply, which goes to prove that the old dictionaries are the best!  What I would like on my bookshelf is a dictionary of words which have been withdrawn from the dictionary  -  a sort of 'anti-dictionary'.  I haven't quite given up on Olivia's unanswered locations (1,2,3 & 6)  -  spent too long today with my beak in the AtoZ Road Atlas, getting nowhere.  Wild thoughts about Holiday Inn being an alternative to Holloway Prison. . .  Also letters from 'trace' can be found in Canterbury, a coincidence I'm sure but no good anyway.  Keep in touch, ja.