Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

By the way, where's the Google-meister this evening ?

Mercia'll be in bed by now I suspect

You can use the 'Edit Post' facility to replace 'Lavishly' with 'Devilishly' you know...

[mercia]

if D is a composer, I can vaguely offer Dibdin or Drigo - the risenman's hints seem to point to the word devil

not sure how I go about looking for an opera with a very long title and syphilitic composers seem to be two-a-penny

musically, Harlequin takes me to Schumann, Busoni, Stockhausen, Strauss, Arne and probably several more

[Resurrection Man]

Merc's has picked up on the clue

D is very well-known

[mercia]

Merc's has picked up on the clue

i would have to be pretty stupid to miss your devilish clue, but please please please, is D a composer ?

yes or no will do

[Resurrection Man]

No

The syphilitic composer is/was not an actual living person.

[Flay]

an appearance in a very long opera title

Is this the title of a very long opera, or a very long title of an opera?

[Resurrection Man]

It is a very long alternative title of an opera .

[mercia]

The syphilitic composer is/was not an actual living person.

I expect I should have known this already, however, Adrian Leverkuhn is apparently the syphilitic composer in Doctor Faustus

thinks

I wonder if D will be Doktor

welcome back Doktor Flay

[Resurrection Man]

Top marks!!

Can you name the other two clues?

[Resurrection Man]

Top marks!!

Can you name the other two clues?

Doctor works as an alternative

[Nick Armstrong]

welcome back Doktor Flay

Indeed. Where'd you get to, north of the border?

[Resurrection Man]

Top marks!!

Can you name the other two clues?

[mercia]

are you in a hurry, risenman ??

that's the third time you've asked that

[Flay]

Indeed. Where'd you get to, north of the border?

No, just very busy and still so. Colleague on holiday, much demand....

Never mind, I'm getting out of the partnership soon

[Nick Armstrong]

Top marks!!

Can you name the other two clues?

I think you have a computer glitch RM - repeat messages....

The was a Drury Lane pantomime in the 18th Century called "Harlequin Doctor Faustus"... http://www.abebooks.com/Harlequin-Do...on/29380778/bd

I suspect that's not what's on the card though