Comments on: Independent 6,787/Radian

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:43:02 +0000

For completeness:

24D [-sp]ARKLE - Cheltenham Gold cup winner

By: Bannsider

Bannsider — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:32:26 +0000

Hi Richard!
As usual I await the Bannsider blog with trepidation. There’s a false moustache and fast car waiting …
Not sure about R’s NW connections but the leader in the Open until a short while ago was “local” :-) And someone’s told the BBC the correct way to pronounce “McDowell”, as well …

By: Richard Bach

Richard Bach — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:55:53 +0000

I agree it’s a cracker. Looking forward to the blog concerning last Saturday’s Indy.

Any Church of Ireland or North-West connection to Radian, Bannsider?

Regards
Richard

By: Duggie

Duggie — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:48:11 +0000

Oops. The others WERE …

By: Duggie

Duggie — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:30:20 +0000

As Bannsider will know, Tamara was the youngest of triplets born in Belfast. The others was Theday and Yisterday.
By the way, since when has age been an acceptable excuse for not knowing? Shakespeare? Never heard of him.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:07:52 +0000

I enjoyed this, and I think the papers contained so much info today, that those, like me, with little really detailed knowledge of golf players, could find most of what they wanted. The course, which I’d never heard of, was printed on the same page as the puzzle.

I found Nagle in a list of post-war winners in another of my papers. Surprised though that Tiger Woods was defined as he was rather than as a three-time winner.

But I’d never have known of Tamara Press were it not for this site!

By: Ali

Ali — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:07:30 +0000

Yep, Duggie, Tamara Press and her sister are well, well before my time! Cheers for the explanation though.

By: Bannsider

Bannsider — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:13:36 +0000

Tamara Press? Another subtlety lost on me. (The answer had to be “IRON” except it was not enought letters!) I am also (ahem) too tender in years to remember her although the less cruciverbally promising Renate Stecher and Jarmila Kratochvilova are ingrained in my memory …

By: Duggie

Duggie — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:58:17 +0000

No, Ali, it’s KEL NAGLE; and you’re clearly not old enough to remember Tamara Press, the massively hirsute USSR Olympic gold medallist in the shot put.

By: Mick h

Mick h — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:45:47 +0000

I found this tough going, since my golf knowledge could be written on a tee. But I do know Herbert Lom was Clouseau’s boss in the Pink Panther films.