Comments on: Huh 9

By: DA

DA — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:03:06 +0000

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.

By: RB

RB — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:52:50 +0000

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.

By: DA

DA — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:47:59 +0000

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.

By: JD

JD — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:11:02 +0000

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.

By: DA

DA — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:56:41 +0000

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?

By: TT

TT — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:16:47 +0000

Poms use dot for hit. “Don’t take any nonsense. Just dot him.”

Therefore:

{champion = HERO} + {hit = DOT} + {American = US} = HERODOTUS, the famous BUBBLE.

By: haiku

haiku — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:18:43 +0000

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.

By: AL

AL — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:12:39 +0000

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.

By: JD

JD — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:34:47 +0000

I think that say is ‘state’ with first (s) taken to heart to produce TASTE.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:07:16 +0000

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).