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Jul 30, 2018 01:58PM
Not them SJ but you're on the right lines
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Sometimes the internet is just plain creepy. Right next to SW’s post is an advert for something called ‘Photowall’, as if my iPad is trying to work out how Hilda’s ‘muriel’ could fit.
nocheese wrote: "Sometimes the internet is just plain creepy. Right next to SW’s post is an advert for something called ‘Photowall’, as if my iPad is trying to work out how Hilda’s ‘muriel’ could fit.":-)
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Major part of Ogden's wall decoration [band]
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The lure is out and I'm in [band]
So is it 'Muriel' then? Seems to be a Hungarian singer/band. I've been sweating over that word for days!
Grr, you're not sorry at all :) Back to the drawing board.
nocheese wrote: "Grr, you're not sorry at all :) Back to the drawing board."You're on the right lines though, as was Sj.
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Major part of Ogden's wall decoration [band; 5]
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The lure is out and I'm in [band; 5]
I need to lie in a darkened room for a bit after that - back soon :)
Pole has hankering back to fight in prison (singer/songwriter).
Rodney CrowellA mundane activity. All aboard! (Guitarist)
A mundane activity. All aboard! (Guitarist) [5,6]
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Bear to write to the German rat. [singer]
Teddy PendergrassNe'er sent back inside greeting from Sydney? (band)
Thanks.Black rider loses half a horse to unknown Australians (band)
Black rider loses half horse to unknown Australians (band)Moon Spectrum becomes them (band)
.Black rider loses half horse to unknown Australians (band) [6]
Moon Spectrum becomes them (band) [6]
I'll do a rewrite and add another clue.Black rider loses his hat (and half a horse by the sound of it) to unknown. Mr Carton will find them. (band) [6]
Moon Spectrum confused them (band) [6]
22 Across
redbyp - He came, he saw, he deciphered. (band) [6]
Thanks, TB. I must admit I got it by looking for a 6 letter band from Sydney with an X in it somewhere! I have in retrospect worked out the 3rd clue - actually a code, (go forward 4 letters),fair enough in view of the title of this thread - but still struggling with bits of the rest, I'd got hung up on 'black rider' being the third horseman - famine, but that doesn't seem right; I had figured out that 'Australians' and 'Mr Carton' indicated where the band was from, and also thought there must be an 'x' for unknown (or 'y' or 'z'). Can't fit the half a horse and the hat in .
The second clue I have no idea about, and I don't get the '22 across' reference in the third one.
Very pleased to have got it though.
nocheese wrote: "Thanks, TB. I must admit I got it by looking for a 6 letter band from Sydney with an X in it somewhere! I have in retrospect worked out the 3rd clue - actually a code, (go forward 4 letters),fair ..."
Black Rider = Nazgul (from Lord Of The Rings)
Half a horse = 'G' (GG) :-)
r + 22 = 'n' (stuvwxyzabcdefghijklmn)
e + 22 = 'a' (fghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza)
d + 22 = 'z' (efghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz)
etc.
SW has clarified and here are some further details:"Nazgul" from Lord of the Rings has a circumflex accent over the 'u', hence losing the 'hat'. (Not sure if it will show up here - Nazgûl )
"Moon Spectrum confused" indicates an anagram of "Luna ZX". Some will remember the ZX-Spectrum from the 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spec....
"He came, he saw ..." of course refers to Julius Caesar. The great man himself used a version of this code to send secret messages and to this day the code is known as the Caesar Cipher.
Not the first time my ignorance of Lord of the Rings has been exposed. Still got no intention of trying to finish the bloody thing.I got the cipher - just going -4 instead of + 22. Thanks for the Julius Caesar clarification, but what about 22 across?
I had thought of the ZX Spectrum, but didn't take that extra step, funnily enough.
Anyway - follow that, as they say. I'll be back in the morning.
I actually did finish LOTR but I was 26 so it’s beyond living memory.I heartily congratulate nc, I’d kept looking in, hoping for a revelation but was losing the will to live. 😳
nocheese wrote: "... but what about 22 across? ..."(22 Across merely refers to the offset between the normal alphabet and the coded version of it which is displaced 22 letters to the right.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (no displacement so 'coded' message is the same as the uncoded one)
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
------------------------ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (moved across by 22 letters)
Of course -4 is equivalent but I've never seen a crossword clue labelled -4 Across !!!
Also, negative numbers hadn't been invented at the time of Julius Caesar! (except perhaps in China)
Got Nazgul. Got ZX Spectrum. Couldn't make any sense beyond that, partly because I was thinking of nag rather than gee-gee and couldn't work out what half of a three-letter word could be, and partly because if I'd spent the rest of my life on this I would never have guessed that there might be an Australian band called Nazxul.
Me neither, Gordon, this is why god invented Google.
Cronies surround perimeter and get what cats get. (band).
nocheese wrote: "god invented Google"The shareholders might be wondering what Larry Page got his $37,900,000,000 of stock options in return for, then.
Primal ScreamYou will find it while searching on Google! (band)
Cheers Sj.A drilling tool is faulty [band]
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A drilling tool is faulty [band]
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A cat starved of hydrogen, front to back [band]
Ta! Do bad loser and iron road mix? (singer and songwriter.)
Do bad loser and iron road mix? (singer and songwriter.) [7,8]
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A stoat on broccoli goes crazy [band]
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