Alphabet associations - I

[Angle]

I do wish this thread would update automatically. It's bit tiring to keep refreshing the page only to find either that someone else has got there first or has provided a helpful clue just a little too late.

Anyway thanks, Ofcachap.

I think that T needs to be very easy and I'd be amazed if it isn't answered in full almost immediately.



T is not technically a musical word or term but has musical connections in

an address to a bat but earlier to a cat

and a non-musical connections with

astrological and celebrity scintillation and
dinner ladies

This is so easy, I expect to be handing over to T very quickly. I should have said U

[Norfolk Born]

Expectations are regularly confounded on this board! All I can think of at the moment is TAB, as in TABby cat and TABard.

[Nick Armstrong]

Are you having a day off, Caliban? From work, I mean.

I am Originally designed to allow for personal delivery of my new passport but since that was here at 9.45, subsequently to find a new side lamp, the old one having broken with an alarming explosion of the bulb when I tried to switch it on last night

So pottering basically.

And failing to find inroads into AA questions. Your "T" has a nice touch of whimsy about it. Not that it's made it any easier to solve!

[Anna]

T is not technically a musical word or term but has musical connections in

an address to a bat but earlier to a cat

and a non-musical connections with

astrological and celebrity scintillation and dinner ladies

Twinkle?

Twinkle, Twinkle little Bat as sung by the Mad Hatter in Alice. Cat could be a reference to the Cheshire Cat.

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. Twinkle was a character in Dinner Ladies.

[amateur51]

Twinkle?

Twinkle, Twinkle little Bat as sung by the Mad Hatter in Alice. Cat could be a reference to the Cheshire Cat.

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. Twinkle was a character in Dinner Ladies.

Aaaaah yes, Twinkle in Dinner Ladies - the excellent Maxine Peake who has gone on from strength to strength.

I like your line of thinking, Anna, by jove I like it a lot!

[Angle]

Well done, Anna. I knew it was easy. Yes, Caliban, quite a whimsy which wins Anna the U. I can go back to sleep again now.

I can't find a sleepy icon, nor a yawn. Sad

[Anna]

Aaaaah yes, Twinkle in Dinner Ladies - the excellent Maxine Peake who has gone on from strength to strength.
I like your line of thinking, Anna, by jove I like it a lot!

Thank you very much, Ams, yes I like Maxine Peake as well.

I'm a bit stumped for a musical U so, as it's not against the rules this is a more literary one with a teensy musical link and, I think very, very, easy. Lots of clues, no need to get all of them.

Which U links:

A groundbreaking American novel, the subject of many silent films, stage plays and musicals
A Russian novel set on an estate, again filmed several times and performed regularly in the theatre
A much loved character in a wartime tv series
Someone recognisable by their headgrear
And a musical connection is Frank Zappa and The Who

Edit: PS Angle, it was a good T

[amateur51]

Thank you very much, Ams, yes I like Maxine Peake as well.

I'm a bit stumped for a musical U so, as it's not against the rules this is a more literary one with a teensy musical link and, I think very, very, easy. Lots of clues, no need to get all of them.

Which U links:

A groundbreaking American novel, the subject of many silent films, stage plays and musicals
A Russian novel set on an estate, again filmed several times and performed regularly in the theatre
A much loved character in a wartime tv series
Someone recognisable by their headgrear
And a musical connection is Frank Zappa and The Who

Edit: PS Angle, it was a good T

Is this your actual Uncle? ... as in Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Man From Uncle, Uncle Vanya?

[Norfolk Born]

I didn't realize that Uncle Vanya was a novel as well as a play.

[Norfolk Born]

A quick google threw up (so to speak) Frank Zappa's Uncles Meat and Remus.

[Anna]

I didn't realize that Uncle Vanya was a novel as well as a play.

Type in haste - repent at leisure!! Sorry about that Ofca, huge apologies.

Ams has got Vanya and Uncle Tom - any advance on that?

Edit, curse these pages for not refreshing! Yes, the Zappa is correct

[amateur51]

What about The Man From Uncle? - very popular on TV during the Cold War??

Well done Ofca!

[Anna]

What about The Man From Uncle? - very popular on TV during the Cold War??

Well done Ofca!

No, not The Man from Uncle, think WW2 (and how he is affectionately referred to by another member of the cast) but I think, you and Ofca are level pegging? How about the one in the instantly recognisable hat?

[vinteuil]

No? How about the one in the instantly recognisable hat?

uncle bulgaria??

[amateur51]

No, not The Man from Uncle, think WW2 (and how he is affectionately referred to) but I think, you and Ofca are level pegging? How about the one in the instantly recognisable hat?

Hat??! You tryped 'headgrear'! I thought it was a reference to a ventriloquist!

I'm making mock; pay no attention!