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Guardian Azed 1960
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(Re-posted) Help!! Anyone anything - just an easy one so I can see how it works. I just can't get started. Thought I was getting somewhere with 11A - demeter ?meter gamete etc but nothing came out.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Sorry, but this is one I haven't even begun to think about yet (the closing date is Jan 2, and there are other puzzles on shorter deadlines and that's not to mention everything that's happening in the real world!)
Just a thought - maybe 'abacus' rather than 'meter' might be a fruitful line of enquiry? I'm sure this will be discussed in the days ahead.
To help others without sight of the original, the link to the puzzle and the instructions is:
http://image.guardian...9/12/14/1960dec20.pdf
Just a thought - maybe 'abacus' rather than 'meter' might be a fruitful line of enquiry? I'm sure this will be discussed in the days ahead.
To help others without sight of the original, the link to the puzzle and the instructions is:
http://image.guardian...9/12/14/1960dec20.pdf
It's pretty tough and I am not quite there yet. It's hard to find a single clue in which none of the three words in the answer is obscure (unless you are a Scottish lexicographer!). For what it's worth, I found the contents easier than the wrappings and I solved 19A first. Bathtub is on the right lines for 11A.
Even when you guys spell it out for me I'm still stuck. OK soroban orobanches ches?. What's ches? from part of rest of the clue and then if I understand the method correctly what still remains of the clue gives sorobanches? (same ?). Are you saying I need a Chambers dictionary to get anywhere? One of those paper things with cardboard backing. I don't have one - I chucked it out when I replaced my soroban with a PC.