Tribune 192

[crosswordnut]

Can anyone please explain to me why 1D - he looks for acne in the gym perhaps? - looks like "spotter" and 34A - Hanna and Jane in Indo-China - looks like "Hanoi".
Maybe I am being rather slow tonight !!

[sandyRoe]

jane Fonda was known as 'Hanoi Jane' during the Vietnam war

[crosswordnut]

Thanks sandyRoe and I presume the other reference is Hanoi Hanna

[sandyRoe]

I can't say I've ever heard of Hanoi Hanna.

[beejay1124]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoi_Hannah

[crosswordnut]

Apparently she was a North Korean radio broadcaster during the war

[sandyRoe]

I have now. She must have been something like Tokyo Rose.

[mac44]

A spotter in the gym looks after a person using weights and helps when necessary.

[crosswordnut]

beejay 1124 - any idea what the connection is between "spotter" and the gym

[crosswordnut]

Thanks mac44 - maybe I should visit the gym more often

[bibblebub]

in gymnastics, a spotter is a person who is stationed in the most effective place to guard against an injury to a performer in the act of executing a manoeuver.

[dnaan]

spotter is correct, he spots if a weight lifter is under too much pressure with a heavy weight