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 ‘Mountain Angel’ with an expensive farming implement, The Cure, Captain Jack Aubrey and a slap-up meal?
Clues will be given as necessary, and the solution will appear later.
Is the expensive farming implement a John Deere?
Nope.
Cats.
is the mountain angel a st bernard?
Again, nope.
Ok, clue time.
Captain Jack is the film version, not the book version.
Jethro Tull, Cap’n Jack and Robert Smith all made rather a meal of putting on the ‘slap’ (i.e. women’s make-up – some only them behind closed doors, for obvious reasons).
Where did Jethro Tull come from, I wonder? Anyway, no.
Inventor of an expensive farming implement. I’m spot on about Robert Smith.
has it something to do with confectionery?
Fraid not, Ian
Anyone want another clue?
The Angel is Luxembourgian.
I reckon I’ve got it! just need to mull one of the clues over
got the lot!!!
The Cure refers to a style of music
correct!
once you’ve got this one it’s easy to get the individual bits.
Dolly Parton’s ‘ Mountain Angel’ marked a dramatic rejection of her Cure influenced Goth period during which her doom-laden lyrics were blamed for a rash of hippie commune suicides from the Tennessee mountains to the far side of the world, where seaman Tallulah Jenkins, a latter-day Fletcher Christian, and crew had rebelled against diabolical 1990s food rations (only four slap-up meals a week) and had cast Commodore Jack Aubrey out into the Pacific with only a packet of digestives and a tractor. When a less than jaunty Jack asked “And what the **** am I supposed to do with this?”, Tallulah replied ” Line it up with the Plough and you’ll be home in no time”.
arf!
haha yep, I’d gone down that google dolly parton/mountain angel route too!
Worm’s got it. For everyone else, here’a a clue…
France.
Tour de? “Angel of the mountains” was the nickname of a particular rider who died a few years back?
You’re right about the rider (who was?) but the Tour is not the overall answer.
Charley Gaul (a Luxembourger).
Correct – but why?
Can’t believe no one else has got this one!!!