Friday Cryptic Crossword Game

[ad hoc]

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[Hofzinser]

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Ealing fashion is sunny and cheerful (6)

[Wyatt Earp]

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Not sure about this, but

Six balls bowled to the players, but not Sunny (8)

[Wyatt Earp]

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Oh well.

[Wyatt Earp]

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We're not genial when confused and losing direction by Tuscan landmark (7,5)

[Duncan Gardner]

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"Leaning tower?", posted Pisa-bound U-21 whipping boys: fixture's irrelevant, surely? (5)

Crusaders duo in squad to face Italy in Pisa.

[Hofzinser]

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I am absolutely baffled by this. Does it require some obscure knowledge of Northern Irish football?

[Wyatt Earp]

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Likewise.

[Nurse Duckett]

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Yes, come on DG, gissa clue. Another one.

This is not doing my work/crossword balance any good at all.

[Wyatt Earp]

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So.

Anyone got any ideas at all?

Maybe we can crack it collectively.

[Andy C]

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I've worked out that the answer is five letters long. Somebody else will have to take over after I've done all that groundwork.

[Hofzinser]

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I at one point pondered the possibility that it was an anagram of "tower" before discarding the notion. Since then, I've been staring blankly and can't even think where to start.

I have a lingering feeling that it's going to involve some Northern Irish football arcana, and will thus only be solvable by the setter himself.

[Andy C]

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I don't think there's an anagram in the "leaning tower" bit (especially "tower") because of the question mark. That usually indicates that something's being used in a rather oblique way, doesn't it?

[Andy C]

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And I just can't escape from the suspicion that "Pisa-bound U-21 whipping boys" indicates the letters NI. Although I'm not sure what the "U-21" is doing in there.

[Hofzinser]

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Something that tows, perhaps?

And is there a hint in the link below the clue, maybe? I couldn't find one.

[Wyatt Earp]

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Barni? Bars can tow. And there's a Barni in Italy.

[Wyatt Earp]

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Doesn't work though, does it?

[Hofzinser]

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Googling reveals that "Barni" is also an acronym for Buildings at Risk in Northern Ireland, which would fit "leaning tower?".

Still seems a little tenuous, though.

[Guy Profumo]

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Hofzinser wrote:

Googling reveals that "Barni" is also an acronym for Buildings at Risk in Northern Ireland, which would fit "leaning tower?".

Still seems a little tenuous, though.

Hand it in at otf reception, and if nobody [or Dunc] claims it within an hour or so you can consider it yours…

[Duncan Gardner]

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Hofzinser wrote:

I am absolutely baffled by this. Does it require some obscure knowledge of Northern Irish football?

Irrelevant, surely?

No knowledge of Irish League football, Italian geography nor buildings at risk legislation is needed. You don't even need to look anything up on google.

Just think laterally...

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Andy C wrote:

Although I'm not sure what the "U-21" is doing in there

Worthington is treating the game as such given the unavailability of lazy senior players and his lack of confidence in older lower-league potential replacements.

[Duncan Gardner]

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fixture's irrelevant, surely?

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[Wyatt Earp]

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Just tell us.

[Wyatt Earp]

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Anyone got any ideas?

[S. aureus]

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Wrote?
(leaning tower, posted. everything else is irrelevant?)

[Wyatt Earp]

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No way. Surely.