Cryptic clues = station name

[Calthrop]

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[Calthrop]

You have it @Calthrop . The floor is yours.

Explanation: "Beeston" can be simply reconstructed as "Best One" and also we have the Attenborough Nature reserve there. Also a very solid "ston" buzz "Bee" is here.

Very largely in the "blind guess" department; I just latched onto the "buzz" bit. Thank you, anyway.


Instruction to funster Sarah, to stow vehicle?

 

[John Griffiths]

Is the funster Fergie, Duchess of York? In which case, although she is no longer an HRH, the instruction, and station, might be that jewel of the London Underground's Piccadilly Line, Park Royal.

 

[Calthrop]

You're on the right track to a considerable extent; but you've got the wrong Sarah (the "clue" one comes definitely from a lower social drawer), and the wrong end of the country.

 

[Loppylugs]

Milliken Park ?

 

[Calthrop]

Correct -- Sarah M. the comedian. The floor is yours.

 

[Loppylugs]

Thanks Calthrop.

Heir to the throne is decapitated on the French lake.

 

[Calthrop]

Haslemere? -- [C]has / le ("the" in French) / mere . Open floor if correct, please.

 

[Loppylugs]

Blimey Calthrop, there's no stopping you is there ? Will have to make them harder. As you say, open floor.

 

[neilmc]

How about

Proficient clue solver went to the preservation site, but with a vitamin deficiency

 

[John Griffiths]

Althorpe? Assuming Calthrop to be the solver, with a vitamin deficiency (-C), the word (very) slightly anagramised and an E tacked on to the end as an artistic flourish.

 

[neilmc]

Very good guess but not where I was thinking of, the preservation site is key and its name makes up most of the solution. Abbreviated names might be in order too.

 

[neilmc]

Calthorp is of course the right person, so where's the preservation site? (I saw it on Morse recently).

 

[Calthrop]

(I'm trying; but getting nowhere as yet.)

 

[Loppylugs]

I seem to remember he was at Didcot recently but can't sus a connection here.

 

[Loppylugs]

I seem to remember he was at Didcot recently but can't sus a connection here.

I have to point out it wasn't Calthrop I saw at Didcot but an episode of Morse !!

 

[neilmc]

Answer is a Welsh station

 

[Calthrop]

Answer is a Welsh station

I notice that my posting-name, anagrammatised and with the addition of the letter W, can make "Porthcawl" -- terminus of a one-time branch line; but so far as I know, no preservation activity there ...

 

[neilmc]

No, no - it's much easier. Your short name, plus the preservation site minus the "vitamin deficiency" gives the answer - I thought this one was simple!

 

[Loppylugs]

Answer is a Welsh station

Got to be Cal plus Didcot minus vitamin D = Caldicot

 

[neilmc]

Loppylugs has it!

 

[Loppylugs]

This station could lead to confusion on the pitch.

 

[Calthrop]

Criccieth?? -- sounds like "cricket", but slightly messed-up...

 

[John Griffiths]

Haltwhistle?

 

[Loppylugs]

Criccieth?? -- sounds like "cricket", but slightly messed-up...

Sorry Calthrop, told you I would have to make them harder.

Haltwhistle?

Good thinking John but incorrect.

 

[RobertsN]

Penally (such as in "penalty")?

 

[RobertsN]

Penally (such as in "penalty")?

Obviously "RedCar(d) Central" for a midfielder will probably do it as well...

 

[Loppylugs]

Penally (such as in "penalty")?

Obviously "RedCar(d) Central" for a midfielder will probably do it as well...

Sorry, neither.

Massive clue no. 1: It's not in Scotland !!

 

[John Griffiths]

If a miscreant had been fly-tipping on the pitch, or, more crudely, if cattle had been wandering over it, it could be Dumpton Park?

 

[John Griffiths]

<lightbulb pings on>

It might cause confusion if a rival international team detrained at Hampden Park expecting to face the Scotland XI at the eponymous stadium.