Only Connect

[vinteuil]

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... so line B might be - foray frank dandy folds?

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[Flay]

List wager frack and saxon <doh>

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

List wager frack and saxon <doh>

Or "frank", if I may be so?

[vinteuil]

List wager frack and saxon <doh>

... yebbut nobbut yebbut - what 'connects' list wager frack and saxon?

(I was thinkin' of connecting Frank and Saxon, but... )

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[Flay]

Or "frank", if I may be so?

I don't give a frack, but the man implied the fourth letter

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... yebbut nobbut yebbut - what 'connects' list wager frack and saxon?

Collectively, they're the illustration of the answer to "What connects 'Liszt, Wagner, Franck, and Saxton'?" (The "answer" itself being "They're all composer's names, the removal of one letter of which gives another word".)

[Boilk]

One more row to get then...

[vinteuil]

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... I wd like to suspect a burning element in falla/fire, boulanger/baker, and parched (?), and a (burning) bush.

But I hae me doots...

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[Boilk]

... I wd like to suspect a burning element in falla/fire, boulanger/baker, and parched (?), and a (burning) bush.

But I hae me doots...

Parched is one of the "answers", and "baker" isn't a million miles off - but via a common connection for all four.

[vinteuil]

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... or possibly land not used for agricultural porpoises : fallow, baked (earth), parched (soil), and the bush.


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[Flay]

... this is much simpler.

I wish I could share your confidence. My head is well and truly scratched.

[Boilk]

Actually I've ballsed up - it doesn't work for Partch but would for Parch - but there is no such composer.
So I'm changing him to 'German' which accommodates the connecting "rule". Sorry again.

[LMcD]

I wish I could share your confidence. My head is well and truly scratched.

Same here I'm afraid...
(I thought parched WAS supposed to be one of the answers ....)

[Flay]

Same here I'm afraid...

Go on Boilky, old Falla. You have permission to spill the beans. Don't beat about the Bush

[Boilk]