Sunday Times Where Was I 16/10

[clarita]

Think I am going insane!!

I have 2 choices for the name of the county town?

Any help gratefully received!

[valerieb1254]

Any clues

[medsec]

Oakham

[old_labour]

Now that you have been told the answer do you enter the competition ? I fail to understand how you could get the answer to question 2 but not the answer to question 1.

[pega]

YES ITS OAKHAM   school is uppingham,  and the other question  answer  is a great day out  lovely place of interest fresh air and glorious country  views. glad you do this quiz, its fun tracking down location and will always get some help on Answer Bank

. Good luck.

[old_labour]

I totally fail to see how being told the answer is getting help.What fun can it be ?

Surely getting help would be further explaining a clue or even pointing to a general area of the country.

Are not those who give away answers  spoiling it for the vast majority of us who do have fun solving competitions like this and crosswords without cheating?

If one cannot solve a particular clue immediately why not do as I do and struggle with it,and if I can not solve it then see the answer when it is published.

I am sure that it is much more fun and satisfying getting an answer after a few days thought than it is to cheat .

[clarita]

Old-Labour!!!!
If you can't use this website in the spirit and manner in which it is meant, don't leave such crass messages

[wideboy]

You're right about this, old_labour. That competition is not the same as the crosswords that we help each other with on AB where there are many answers and you might be stuck on one or two. Just giving the answer to the competition is not right - people should give clues (we did that recently and people eventually solved the problem - much more fun!).

In this case though, clarita did say that they had two possible answers (but didn't give them).

What do the others think?