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[sincnoel]

It seems everyone agrees that 19a is "cabin". but why specify "the commanding officer's room on a naval warship" when most ships have cabins? and, even then, it's not just commanding officers who have cabins on warships. is there something odd here?

[sarumite]

Hi sincnoel .... see item 6 on attached link
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/diction ary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861593882

[Aquagility]

sincnoel, this worried me very much when launching this weeks link words for the KM competition. I agree with all you say, but could find no alternative.

[sincnoel]

thank you, sarumite. but i think you might agree that it's a pretty weird clue

[sincnoel]

on the other hand, it could bhe -- probably is -- another example of the mephamistic tendency to sow doubts in solvers' minds

[Aquagility]

Thanks, sarumite. I had not seen that - and I think it's a load of cobblers! But at least we now know where Kate got the idea.

sincnoel has the rights of it.

[sincnoel]

incidentally, i take it we can now assume that kate is using encarta as her preferred source, rather than chambers?

[Lipsiot]

Just to throw in my ha'penny worth......this is from Answers.com :

In most modern warships the commanding officer has a main cabin, often adjacent to the ship's central control room (operations room), and a sea cabin adjacent to the bridge. Thus, when likely to be called from sleep or attending to administration, the CO can be at the Bridge or Ops room instantly.