Spectator 2274

[hankir]

dja is on vacation. He advised some of us on how to get the puzzle.

I googled for the puzzle and found this.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/08/2274-round-round/

[teenieleek]

Thanks Hankir, I was hoping someone would find a good link.

[roslyn251254]

Nice puzzle .... don't think we've had that theme before ..... and a change from BREWER!

[jadzia49]

Have finished but can't find the final Two- word theme word hidden. I presume it has a colour in the name. Any hints to where to start looking? Am getting cross-eyed trying to find it!

[jadzia49]

Penny just dropped!

[decarabas]

I just started but I can't figure out what to do with the unnumbered down eight-letter answer ending at 27 across. Is that a mistake or am I just not getting something?

[Calibax]

^That's one of the unclued thematic entries.

[roslyn251254]

hello decarabas .... that's one of the unclued along with one nr top left corner down5 letts, one down one in column 10, 31a and another 4 letter one down the bot right corner.
try to fill up as much as you can in the grid... hopefully then you will have enough letters to work out 31a or the down one in col 10 ... once you have one of those you should be able to "guess/deduce" the theme.

Come back later if you are still stuck... there is always someone to help out.

[hankir]

Perimeter is turning out to be difficult.
The unclued in 10th column seems to be a proper name. 31A is a generic version of it. So is 10 letter word at 2A.
I think the last column may have the name of a place, probably 10 letters.

The last two unclued (5,4) may refer to a canal.
The 1st column and last row need a hint or two.

Thanks.

[shaneystar2]

Look at a map of the tube on Wiki hankir .The circle line. All the unclued are there .

[hankir]

Thanks shanystar2.
Difficult for those who have no idea about the tube.

It is also going to be tough to find the two words.
I thought the name of service would be the hidden words.

Any hint on that?

[shaneystar2]

It's another tube station and must be highlighted in yellow .
Starts at the fifth letter in row 2 across and the third letter in row nine across.The circle line is yellow on the tube map .
Thanks for giving us the link btw.Good luck .

[shaneystar2]

Btw it took a while for the penny to drop for me .I saw Paddington and started looking for bears ! In view of round and round( the garden) etc.
I totally lost the plot for a while :)

[hankir]

Thanks again.

I did see the word in row 2 but was looking for the second word in row 3.

I should have gone back and looked at the list again.

If you know the tube system, this is a cinch.

[teenieleek]

Strange one this - clues were straightforward but until all of them had been entered and 31ac became obvious, the theme was hard to find - but then I'm not a capitalist! Good fun though and Brewer stayed on the shelf for once.