Spectator N0 2658 : Yackety-Yack By Doc
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.wendyl How's the latest Matlock Quiz going? At this end, 110 clues have been solved wtith ideas on another 5. The remaning 5 will need very careful thought!
The clue that defied solution in the very LAST Quiz was: Q92. Take a nautical word for the wind, expressing joy and type of slightlly leavened Indian bread and stir
The answer was given as HANGAR LANE ( a fairly important junction in London)!!?
This clue was not solvable in my opinion. Firstly, it was the name of a street - rather than a town or famous building. Secondly, it has been incorrectly spelt - should be HANGER LANE (according to my A-Z).
Thirdly, it has been constructed as an anagram of the three "words" LARGE + HA + NAN. Each of these is flawed! The last word NAN is usually taken as NAAN, and HA could then have been dropped to H(ydrogen). To find HA as an expression of joy is asking a great deal!
Finally LARGE is supposed to be "a nautical word for the wind". This is simply not true. The phrase, BY and LARGE is nautical in origin and refers to the part of the wind that propels a yacht (the LARGE) and the unusable part of the wind that acts across the path of the yacht (the BY). For these reasons (taken together) there was NO CHANCE that anyone could have solved the clue to Q92.
Fortunately the latest matlock Quiz appears to be free of such problems (by and large)! Regards