Alphabet associations - I

[rubbernecker]

and Orlando was the Marmalade Cat -

Thank you, Vinteuil. I am relieved to say I am not familiar with this particular literary canon

http://www.purr-n-fur.org.uk/folios/orlando.html

[Don Petter]

Thank you, Vinteuil. I am relieved to say I am not familiar with this particular literary canon
http://www.purr-n-fur.org.uk/folios/orlando.html

To be honest, I've never read them either, but the title phrase is somehow well ingrained in my subconscious memory.

[sigolene euphemia]

well, i'm not completely sure - but the conserve is marmalade, and orlando was the marmalade cat - and then i wonder if the noisy mischief makers might be gibbons - which would give us orlando gibbons - he of the 'silver swan' ?

bravo !

[vinteuil]

Wiki).

Your 'P', I think.

*Orlando (The Marmalade Cat) is the central character in a series of nineteen illustrated children’s books by Kathleen Hale, published 1938-1972

We had a couple of the Orlando books when I was a child. I can't remember the stories, but Kathleen Hale's illustrations are marvellous...

Now as for P - I was thinking of two contemporaries - the gentle one wasn't, the other was very briefly - but then perhaps his death kept music alive. And the third P? well, Handel was sure he was correct in incorporating it.

[Nick Armstrong]

Thank you, Vinteuil. I am relieved to say I am not familiar with this particular literary canon
http://www.purr-n-fur.org.uk/folios/orlando.html

Ditto rubbers. It certainly wasn't one of those questions where I go "Ah yes, of course!" on reading the answer.

DP, what on earth did the 'wagon' clue have to do with gibbons?

[Don Petter]

I think I have the P, though only one of the three references without further research. I'll keep quiet, as I don't want this to become a singles match - there are few enough of us involved as it is. I'll PM the inquisitor for confirmation that my P is right.

[Simon]

there are few enough of us involved as it is.

Well in a way yes, though there are more who read, if you look. And provided it keeps us out of mischief, it doesn't really matter how many, though I think we should maybe make it clear overtly from time to time that others would be very welcome.

Maybe it is, too, a good idea just to leave an hour or two between tries.

I'd be more active if I could get the answers!!! - - but I probably need choral and organ/piano, or Mozart, to be in with a chance. And of course hardly anything post 1910...

[Nick Armstrong]

I was thinking of two contemporaries - the gentle one wasn't, the other was very briefly - but then perhaps his death kept music alive. And the third P? well, Handel was sure he was correct in incorporating it.

[Don Petter]

DP, what on earth did the 'wagon' clue have to do with gibbons?

I was trying to help guide you to monkeys as the mischief-makers (Wagonload of...), which might then allow you to consider variants of that simian breed.

[Don Petter]

The inquisitor has confirmed my supposition, and is urging me to 'come out', but I really have no idea of two of the references, which look as if they need more subtle knowledge than I possess. I think I'll leave it until later this evening at least, to give other brains a chance to hit on the link.

[Norfolk Born]

there are few enough of us involved as it is.

Any idea why that might be - or doesn't it matter that much? Although I like to think I'm pretty bright, and am quite good at solving crosswords - indeed, I used to set one regularly although it wasn't particularly cryptic - I have found myself increasingly out of my depth as regards not only the questions but also the clues that appear to be increasingly necessary.

[rubbernecker]

The inquisitor has confirmed my supposition, and is urging me to 'come out',

Go on Don, you know you want to! I should also like to suggest at this stage that, after the thrilling denouement, we skip Q and move on to R. And also skip X, Y and Z (if this thread doesn't implode up its own fundament before then )

[Nick Armstrong]

(Wagonload of...)

OH yes! Now you mention it...

I have always hated cryptic crosswords - my brain just isn't wired that way.. The fact that questions here are increasingly becoming exercises in cryptic paraphrase increasingly makes me feel like a bit of a moron!

[sigolene euphemia]

And also skip X, Y and Z (if this thread doesn't implode up its own fundament before then )

UHHHHHH.hh.h, you do know that I specialize in X and Y ?

siggy


.. .. for those who did not follow along at the conclusion of the alphabet last go round, I placed I. Xenakis and that is NOT music to some only maths, and then the Y as in Yo-Yo Ma. In other words we all became major scrambled up.

[Norfolk Born]

The fact that questions here are increasingly becoming exercises in cryptic paraphrase increasingly makes me feel like a bit of a moron!

You aren't the only one! Sadly, things have reached the stage where not only the questions and the answers, but also the supposedly helpful clues, have to be explained - and sometimes the explanations also need to be explained. And some of the questions clearly seem to have more than one valid answer.
Still .... if it keeps a few folk happy.