RTE 45 Tuesday November 2nd 2010

[lorus]

27a Is this where her 60' hit took Dusty Springfield (8)

16d Then swears madly to find solutions (3,7)

19d Macropodidae the clue: ok,a groan out of the bush should do (8)

2d Changes within the church we hear (6)

[beejay1124]

2 alters

[Oldred]

16d the answers

[Mamyalynne]

19 kangaroo

[octogenarian]

16d The answers----------2d Alters (sounds like altars

[bernedette]

27a, downtown

[lorus]

thanks to five very clever people who helped me

lorus

[bibblebub]

27a it was Petula Clark who had the hit with Downtown, the only 8 letter word in a Dusty hit is "preacher".

[bernedette]

bibblebub,you are correct ,It was indeed Petula Clark ,who had a hit with" Downtown"
dont know why I thought it was Dusty Springfield,However "downtown" slots in nicely with all other answers,So I think Rosebud,(crossword setter)got it wrong!

[TheWinner]

I was thinking, that maybe the setter got the 8 wrong, and it should have been 7,
as Dusty had a hit with "In the middle of nowhere" and NOWHERE is 7 letters.
What do you think?

[bernedette]

"nowhere "Would make answers to 3 other questions wrong.27d,23d,and16d.Which in turn would make answers to 3 other questions wrong.

[TheWinner]

As we are not doing the quiz, we can't make sense of where we are going wrong.
We can only make suggestions. Sorry if it was the wrong answer, and good luck.

[bernedette]

Yes it is difficult,when you haven't the crossword in front of you .It didnt occur to me that it was the wrong Singer ,untill it was pointed out by bibblebub.So I am not 100% sure I have all answers right

[treetops1]

http://www.free-lyric...d/85352-Downtown.html

[bernedette]

Thank you treetops1,does this mean both Petula and Dusty ,had a hit with "downtown"?

[bibblebub]

The song is included in the musical Dusty - The Original Pop Diva but it was never a hit for Dusty Springfield. On The Good Ship Lollipop is also included in that musical but it would stretch credulity to believe that Dusty had a hit with that too.

If there is evidence that Dusty had success with the song then I suggest someone contacts The Guinness Book Of Hit Singles because it is not listed there.