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Last week's ST WWI? (15 July
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Can anyone please give me the the locations or seven clues that were used to get "Stars and Stripes"?
With many thanks and love to all,
LM
With many thanks and love to all,
LM
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Our �Books and Battlefields� treasure hunt sees us convene at a motorway service area. Our mission: solve the clues, photograph each to prove it, and �save� the letters specified. Thus we open the first clue: �Capital suburb? (Save letters five and six.) Mr Milton�s wife might recognise it.� Friend, buried beneath a mountain of books and maps, quickly navigates us to a village, where, one snap later, the second clue is opened: �A short drive to a village (save letter one) where the Golden Cockerel found early �sustenance�. Here, too, lived a verse writer (surname: letters three and six). Works include Hips and Haws.� The clue is soon solved.
Clue three: �You might find a Crome Yellow house in the village (letter six) along the road. For sure a novelist (surname: letter two) � his autobiography, A Little Learning � wrote and honeymooned here.� It is easy enough to find the village, where the next clue is opened: �A little more than three baker�s dozen steps west to a fourth village (letters three and five). Here lived, and is buried, a third writer (surname: letter six), governor general of Canada between 1935 and 1940.� A picture proves our visit.
Clue five: �Follow the nearby canal � or canter � to this town (letter two), to meet a splendid lady on a white horse.� At last a clue I am able to solve � as I am clue six: �North to battle! Photograph the canalside village (letters five and seven) where, in 1644, 18,000 men met for a punch-up with no outright winner.� The seventh question is right up my street, too: �Rewind 175 years � or drive for 10 minutes to the hamlet (letter six) where a second battle was fought, about which little is known � save it concerned bellicose flowers.�
There, we open the final clue: �Add a letter �s� to your collection. Rearranging them reveals an emblem that, like its cousins, has a fly and a hoist (and possibly a truck nearby).
Clue three: �You might find a Crome Yellow house in the village (letter six) along the road. For sure a novelist (surname: letter two) � his autobiography, A Little Learning � wrote and honeymooned here.� It is easy enough to find the village, where the next clue is opened: �A little more than three baker�s dozen steps west to a fourth village (letters three and five). Here lived, and is buried, a third writer (surname: letter six), governor general of Canada between 1935 and 1940.� A picture proves our visit.
Clue five: �Follow the nearby canal � or canter � to this town (letter two), to meet a splendid lady on a white horse.� At last a clue I am able to solve � as I am clue six: �North to battle! Photograph the canalside village (letters five and seven) where, in 1644, 18,000 men met for a punch-up with no outright winner.� The seventh question is right up my street, too: �Rewind 175 years � or drive for 10 minutes to the hamlet (letter six) where a second battle was fought, about which little is known � save it concerned bellicose flowers.�
There, we open the final clue: �Add a letter �s� to your collection. Rearranging them reveals an emblem that, like its cousins, has a fly and a hoist (and possibly a truck nearby).
Very many thanks b97st, for sending the complete puzzle.
My appeal for thelp was not at all clear enough, and I apolgize most humbly.
What I was trying to get were the answers to the clues given (the locations) so that when rearranged, and an S added, would give me "Stars and Stripes".
This the first of all the 550 WWI?s that I have not been able to solve - but that's Ok if I can only add the clue answers,
Again with many thanks.
Lm
PS. Can anyone help I wonder -with pleading tone!
My appeal for thelp was not at all clear enough, and I apolgize most humbly.
What I was trying to get were the answers to the clues given (the locations) so that when rearranged, and an S added, would give me "Stars and Stripes".
This the first of all the 550 WWI?s that I have not been able to solve - but that's Ok if I can only add the clue answers,
Again with many thanks.
Lm
PS. Can anyone help I wonder -with pleading tone!
Clue 1. Forest Hill. Marie Powell one of Milton's wives hailed from Forest Hill : letters 5 & 6 = ST
Clue 2.Coppard wrote Hips and Haws: letters 3 & 6 = PR
Clue 3. Beckley ( where Waugh lived): letter 6 = E
Waugh wrote a A Little Learning: letter 2 = A
Clue 4. John Buchan wrote the 39 Steps and is buried in Elsfield: letters 3 & 5 = SI and N
Clue 5. Banbury Cross: letter 2 = A
Clue 6. Cropredy (site of ECW battle in 1644): letters 5 & 7 = RD
Clue 7. Edgcote (site of Wars of the Roses battle in 1469): letter 6 = T.
Clue 2.Coppard wrote Hips and Haws: letters 3 & 6 = PR
Clue 3. Beckley ( where Waugh lived): letter 6 = E
Waugh wrote a A Little Learning: letter 2 = A
Clue 4. John Buchan wrote the 39 Steps and is buried in Elsfield: letters 3 & 5 = SI and N
Clue 5. Banbury Cross: letter 2 = A
Clue 6. Cropredy (site of ECW battle in 1644): letters 5 & 7 = RD
Clue 7. Edgcote (site of Wars of the Roses battle in 1469): letter 6 = T.
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