Huh 9
Scan this lot and you should be able to make some headway, someway, either via the definition, or at least of glimpse of worplay. My trouble is accounting for every last detail. Like how’s the DOT defined in Herodotus? Or who’s the bloody TV chef? And why are percussion instruments found in a kitchen?!
You’ll see what I mean as you travel the list. Any hope of you tidying some loose ends?
Discrimination, say, first taken to heart = TASTE [Times 8444]
Famous Greek champion hit American = HERODOTUS [Times 8450]
Piece of writing in bad French? = PASSAGE [Cinephile]
Good nature: TV chef and I divide dog food = BONHOMIE [Enigmatist]
Full form of meal never freely available, it’s said = LUNCHEON [Times 8454]
Nicer soups cooked in kitchen = SUPERSONIC [Times 8454]
Try to economise with green director sequestering millions = SKIMP [Times 8456]
August 12th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
I’ve got no problem with the clue for LUNCHEON, which is the full form of ‘lunch’, of which it’s said there’s no such thing as a free one, and I remember ads for a Ken HOM non-stick wok, so I assume he’s the TV chef referred to (if not simply a famous woksmith).
August 13th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
I think that say is ‘state’ with first (s) taken to heart to produce TASTE.
August 14th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
re “PASSAGE”: a little knowledge of the French lingo is required. “sage”can mean good as in “soyez sage” (be good). “pas” is French for not .Hence “passage” = not good or bad in French.
August 15th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Director = skip and millions = m, to give “to economise with green”, where green is slang for “greenbacks” = money. Not sure I’m 100% comfortable with m = millions rather than the singular.
To dot someone in the eye is to give them a black eye.
August 15th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Poms use dot for hit. “Don’t take any nonsense. Just dot him.”
Therefore:
{champion = HERO} + {hit = DOT} + {American = US} = HERODOTUS, the famous BUBBLE.
August 15th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Some good gets here. In order:
+ Ah, free lunch being the longer version of luncheon. My mind and stomach were elsewhere. Thanks Rob.
+ On the verge of crying ‘Indirect anagram!’ – but there are clear directions on how to manipulate a single letter. Hence a clever clue.
+ Spanish is my language, while French is pas-sage. Merci.
+ Are we happy with SKIP (as in the SS Minnow) = director? Seems a stretch. But thanks haiku for putting green in its proper place.
+ Biff. Clock. Snot. But never have I encountered dot. Though the black-eye origin gives the word some street cred. Ta TT.
+ And Hom is an homme culinaire, ne pas? News to me.
Which brings us back to the range top. How does PERCUSSION relate to ktichens? Kettles, fine. Kettledrms, huh?
August 15th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Hi DA,
Can you please clarify the Percussion/Supersonic/Nicer Soups clue?. All three fine anagrams, but which is the clue and which is the correct answer? Then we may be able to help you out.
August 15th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
PERCUSSION is truly the answer. (I had to check my entry the next day to make sure…) So all the ‘kitchen ingredients’ are on the table, so to speak.
August 15th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Just found my way in here. I liked the LUNCHEON clue.
Re the Percussion/Supersonic/Nicer Soups clue. The answer was initially stated to be Supersonic, but now you have Percussion. And I think I can explain it. The percussion section of the orchestra is sometimes jocularly referred to as the kitchen or kitchen-sink department.
August 16th, 2009 at 7:03 am
Perversely, the kitchen/percussion coupling all makes a strange kind of sense when you take a feast of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kee9vQ5eO3M
Thanks all. Huh 9 can now sleep tight.