Monthly Meeting Minutes - 4th June 2023

 Date of Meeting: 4th June 2023

 

Location of Meeting:

The Sherloft, My House, Portsmouth, UK

 

Attendees:

"The Entire Canon" (Paul Thomas Miller)

 

Apologies:

What else could "The Entire Canon" (Paul Thomas Miller) be? All apologies.

 

Toast:

"The Entire Canon" (Paul Thomas Miller) provided the following toast to Sherlock Holmes:

Stick a trumpet up your bum.

Tape some geese to the sun.

Catch an egret having fun.

Sherlock Holmes is Number One.

Presentation:

"The Entire Canon" (Paul Thomas Miller) presented the following "fun" game:

Holmesian Cryptic Crossword.

The aim is to solve this cryptic crossword and then discover what links all of the answers.

You should find you can click on the image of the crossword grid to see it enbiggened and then you can print it off.

CLUES:

Across

5 Crook in lexicon Victor uses (7) 

7 Killer of two donkeys and Indiana (8) 

9 Savage midget plus one male, is terra firma queen (7,8) 

10 Low notes in El Minya Airport make ambassador's home (7) 

13 Head teacher leaves charting crucifix for train station (7,5) 

14 Faculty member for posers possibly (9) 

15 Aficionado Connor has mixed up issue inside (11) 

16 You'd be misguided to be lead up this way (6,4) 

17 Organisation of loud, brave, wide street (9) 

20 Roof wallops, we hear, is used to secure a letter (7-3) 

23 Egyptian city of Alex and Ria (10) 

24 Flower in coins for communities of monks (11) 

25 Ray erects mangled clerk (9) 

28 Heartless red letter day speech makes a scarlet parasite (3,5) 

29 Scuttle scuttle meat (7) 

30 Choose ninety-nine Ians to be eye specialists (9) 

31 Flipped artificial intelligence after broken bries for this cold region (7) 

32 Blair ires confused book lenders (9) 

36 Ancient Egyptian policeman twitch? (6) 

39 Bride in Malawi feeds horses (4) 

40 A little application before small bird in ease creates craving for food (8) 

42 Talk pig meat for Kent town (7) 

43 Emphasise electric coin (6) 

45 Drunken plod aims for qualifications (8) 

Down

1 Another country in Cyprus, Siam and Sweden (6) 

2 Find his list in confusion for those who believe existence is senseless (9) 

3 Friend and fiends establish reused writing material (10) 

4 Result of milking ponies? A harsh howl (6,6) 

6 Edward in sweeper chamber (7) 

8 Interrogation of angry assessment (5-11) 

11 Mr Swan nets spider homes (7) 

12 Rub back with French water for a writing desk (6) 

13 Rural lass troubled groin curtly (7,4) 

18 Clutched chlorine as performance-enhancing drug (7) 

19 Dad's herb alley (7) 

20 Sights for sight (10) 

21 Sound of walking twelve inch Saint episodes (9) 

22 Quote about Texan leader next to french train station for smoker (9) 

26 Confused chosen kit for a wide snout (5,4) 

27 Small container seen in photograph I always carry (5) 

31 Sounds like Susan is team hara-kiri (7) 

33 Furniture in gazebo. OK. Case closed (8) 

34 Mr Damon in gallium carpeting (7) 

35 Pelt line trench (6) 

37 Bee Gees hit upset Ed Garty (7) 

38 Disappear around right lacquer (7) 

41 Documents primate in present tense (6) 

44 Mixed up rock that floats (4)

Nobody at The Shingle of Southsea's meeting was able to complete the crossword or solve the mystery of what links all the answers. As such, we are throwing the competition open to all readers of The Shingle of Southsea's meeting minutes. The first person to send a correctly completed grid and the correct answer to dearbuck@outlook.com will be the proud winner of a voucher for some radishes and a severe ignoring, redeemable at their nearest Sherloft.

Any other business:

"The Entire Canon" (Paul Thomas Miller) requested that there be more cold beer at the next meeting as The Sherloft is unbearably hot at this time of year.