Sending Out A Call ……

[seekeerz]

To the helpful K M family …..I’m still in limbo when it comes to the Telegraph so I’m looking for someone to post the links please, and then I can get the game underway ….thanks :)

[twix123]

Hi Steff. I'm on the case right now....

[seekeerz]

Twix …you’re a treasure xx

[twix123]

11a. Cavalry collectively; a “buck” for gymnastically vaulting over; a clothes airer; an equid such as a cob, hack, hunter or shire; or, the male of said animal, as opposed to a mare (5)

46a. An act of moving swiftly on foot whilst undergoing the punishment of the gauntlet, for example (3)

47a. From the Arabic for “sherbet” and source of “sorbet”, a sugary liquid used for drinks, drizzling on ice cream, preserving fruit or for sweetening (5)

33d. With phases indicated on the faces of some types of wristwatches, Earth’s only natural satellite (4)

[Sam1960]

horse
run
syrup ?
moon

[seekeerz]

Ok I think

HORSE
RUN
SYRUP
MOON

[haras2]

horse
run
sugar
moon
????

[seekeerz]

Hi Sam, yes I think we’re on the right path…

Thank you, twix, :). I envy you your paper !!

[seekeerz]

Hi haras, yes you’re correct as well, but I must give BA to twix …..gee he can type quickly too !!

[Sam1960]

Morning seekz, hope this finds you well ; )) x

Thanks twix for posting the clues ; )))

[Sam1960]

Sorry haras, never saw you there, hope this finds you well also ; ))

[twix123]

Steff, I think that 'syrup' is correct for 47a., having worked out the down answers (having thought of sugar and honey as alternatives).

The 'free ' trial for a month followed by payments of £ 3.99 seems worthwhile at the moment. I gave up buying the Telegraph some time ago, after the price was increased to a ridiculous amount. I looked at a copy in Sainsbury's this week and saw that the cover price was now
£ 3.00 for a daily, and the Saturday copy was something like £ 4.00 if I remember correctly. When I used to commute up to London it slowly went up from 50p in 1974 to £ 1.00 in 2001 and I still used to buy it until I retired for the second time in 2011, when it was about £ 1.50 if I can recall!

[twix123]

Steff, that wasn't typing, it was all copy and paste. I learnt to touch type in the 60's when I started working in a continental bank, although my Mother and my Aunt taught typing at Pitman's in London before WW2 and I had access to a portable typewriter from a young age.

[Buenchico]

" . . . the Saturday copy was something like £ 4.00 if I remember correctly"

Yup, that's what I paid for it last Saturday - and that was only to get the crossword to scan for Seekeerz. I never read a single word of the paper itself!

[seekeerz]

Always a very useful skill, typing ….I never learnt, colleges didn’t teach ‘useful’ things in my day and now I’ve just got lots of bad habits !!

[seekeerz]

I owe you, Chris, even if I made such a stuff up with it !!

[twix123]

Hi Chris. There used to be too many sections to read, most of which ended up in the bin still in a 'virgin' state. It would take all week to get near the end of it all.

[Buenchico]

It's OK, Steff. I said that I'd let you off with the four quid if you carried on posting here at weekends, so I can't complain, can I?
;-)

If I buy a paper on a Saturday, Twix, it's usually The Times but that's only because of the big crossword that me and a couple of mates occasionally work on together (using the easier non-cryptic clues) when one of them is over here from his home in Italy. I still tend not to read it, largely because (as you say) there's just too much of it!