Here’s this week’s devilishly fiendish Round Blogworld Quiz question (see the previous ones and their solutions here). As usual, find the link between these cryptic clues. A point for each item you get, and an imaginary cream bun of regal proportions if you get them all. If you get the link straight off, please don’t give it away too early!
What links a hack’s tool with Hernaria glabra, lucerne grass, Lancelot’s bastard, a balletic spin and every song you know?
Clues will be given as necessary, and the solution will appear later.
Yes it’s a toughie this week.
without google the only thing I know is that Lancelot’s son was called Galahad, and that lucerne grass is also called alfalfa!
I shall begin the googlequest
Good start.
Strangely, I think I have the answer already, which I happened upon by accident whilst tapping away… will just start on the individual ones (rupturewort for the hernia glabra…?)
Correct, and very well done if you’ve got it but don’t give it away yet.
Ah yes. Am I thinking on the same lines as you Adelephant?
I think you might well be, jonathan.
Gawd. How do you do it? I can never even get started. Thankfully it has some of the qualities of a spectator sport for us dull-wits.
I’ve got them all except the last one. Is it all something?
Ah good, I’m glad at least one of them has stumped you, clever-clogs.
NO CLUES FOR YOU!
For everyone else – this is a lateral one.
Ignore that – I just got the complete repertoire.
All right- a cream bun for you. I’m not revealing the answer til much later though.
oooh I have found a link! probably the same way that adelephant did!
I guess that a hack’s tool is a typewriter rather than an axe or saw?
Another clue could be five more than ninety.
still not sure about every song i know
Ah so, even I see it now. I must have found that link as well, or a very similar one. Come on Worm, you surely must have sussed that last clue.
I didn’t get it from a link, I got it from Mavis!
Mavis is the cream bun lady.
Glad Galahad had a lass; Galahad’s a lad. etc
It’s a bit late in the day to phone Adelephant for the answer, but didn’t Alf Alfa, the famous Fleet Street hack, make his name working with Lou Cerne who, before entering investigative journalism as the great Alf Alfa’s sidekick or ‘tool’, was a police snout whose underworld soubriquet was ‘Lou the Green Grass’; green because of the naivety shown when he tipped off Inspector Jack Lancelot of the Yard that his son, that arrogant bastard Galahad, was having an affair with Lancelot’s wife, the ballerina Guinevere Stubbs, whose pirouette at Sadler’s Wells in 1980 was so intense it cost £30,000 to repair the boards. When asked why he used to sing like a canary, Lou said “Because the only song I know is ‘Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep’.
Magnificent John – an official Creativity Cream Bun is winging its way towards you, imaginarily.
Thank you, Brit. I shall certainly enjoy it.
Honorary Cream bun for Jonathan!
Blimey. Speaking as one who awards myself a cream bun if I finish The Telegraph Quick Crossword in under a day, this all make me feel a bit dim! However, I gain a certain pleasure from watching you all working it out!