January Generalist

[macpark]

I am truly impressed by the lack of posts on this topic. Does that mean I am the only one who is finding it very difficult?

Could someone help me with the 15 letter answer begining with J A dreamy fellow, and the boulder that rocks, 5,5 beginning with L

Thanks

[ulysses100]

johnny head in air
logan stone

[Ont-ice]

Not just you macpark:
Hubby is stuck on - Early Christains who carried ascetic practices to extremes (10) and
Also the Brit question:GWR express running between Paddington and Carmarthen. (3 6)
Any others we can help you with?

[slaney]

Hi Ont-ice ..have lost my copy with answers pencilled in, so back to the drawing board..
Try Encratites for the ascetics.

[Ont-ice]

Thanks Slaney.

[Strix]

Friends of the Shrubbery and the AB

This is more of a question than an answer.

Could one of you be so kind as to supply me with the web address for The Generalist January crossword.

My previous computer is in intensive care and may recover but in the meantime I have lost all my bookmarks.

Much more importantly I think Seekeerz is soon going to start teasing me about my ignorance for not claiming to have finished it.
Hopefully she will not have read this request, as it is some un-G*dly hour in the antipodes.
And before she arises from her slumbers I could then email her to say I have stumbled/ am totally perplexed/ am in desperation or, possibly, say I have finished it.

Thanks
Strix

[slaney]

Hi Strix..here it is..

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/usr/issues_ crossword/621.pdf

[Ont-ice]

We still need the R answer to the UK question re the GWR Express running between Paddington and Carmarthen (3 6) Is it Red something? Perhaps Ensign? Guessing madly here not knowing the UK railway system.

[mjd]

Red Dragon

[Ont-ice]

Thank you MJD.

[sarumite]

Hi macpark .. I consider the january generalist to be roughly in line with the degree of difficulty expected with this puzzle, but with the added interest of needing to fit the unnumbered answers into the grids.

I was able to finalise just before Christmas, although I ended up with the two sets of answers in the wrong grids, so I had to rewrite and transpose them! Mind you my first copy was particularly rough, so it would have been necessary to rewrite before submitting!

[Strix]

Slaney,
Thank you so much for the link.
Very kind of you
Strix

[macpark]

Thank you all so much. I still have loads of gaps so I can't even begin to start trying to put them into grids. This time of year is mad for us with a husband and child chorister who didn't finish work till 4.30pm on Christmas Day. I had sat & sun Telegraph x-words to do and gave up on them in the end as there was no way I would get them finished by tomorrow. I now have a wee gap before the Hogmanay visitors arrive so I am hoping to make a bit of an effort with the Generalist. Trouble is Saturday has come round again and there'll be another Telegraph crossword to do!!

[macpark]

P S I only bought the Sunday Telegraph last week because my daughter was one of the choristers on the front page!! Proud mother having a boast if you'll forgive me!