EV 910

[devadolly]

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's Mr O...............I just knew it was going to be before I opened the paper, oh woe!
I am heading straight into DC to hang some black-out curtains, dust off the psychiatrist's couch and take to my bed in a darkened room.........................................
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is a far, far better thing.......

[Christiana]

Well all, I settled down happily today in my own home for a change and surrounded by familiar reference books. BUT - same reaction as you Devadolly. Now, after considerable hair tearing have filled in top half of grid and also stumbled on (I think) the correct treatment for various clues (No, Devadolly, not in the dustbin, or, tweaker, in a funeral pyre, tempting though that might be!)

Now going to take a deep breath and tackle the lower half of the puzzle. One query though. 10d - pretty sure I have the right answer but having a bit of a pang over it as I can't find the word in the big red book that I'm left with after treatment,

[DocHH]

Christiana, very pleased you are now comfortably chez toi, very comforting to have the neccessary books around you. I found working from the west side of the grid easiest and finally with a twitch completing 10d thematically!

[Jogler]

Many thanks for the comments. Am going on the nmi (no middle initial) route - which is the totally obvious one once the grid is filled (sorry Dd that you are tearing your hair out) but I wish he hadn't made a thing of ALL the initials when said person is well known to have three. H-g managed quite satisfactorily, I think, and was happier watching the golf here than at my geeks meeting... but I am being roped in to the Speccie tomorrow which I am dreading. I am sorry not to be able to come up with some useful help Dd but the brain has ground to a halt.

[novalis]

Hi Devadolly!

Jogler has given you a very helpful hint re the author by referring to you as DD......DD....DD.

[DocHH]

Hello Novalis,
I rather suspect Devadolly has, in her words in a previous thread," legged it" and is lounging in DC with Physicgirl and mini Pg! They were comparing foodstuff to take there earlier in the thread. At least Christiana is still plugging away.
With hindsight, Portsmouth probably need the money more than Spurs.
Very pleasant weatherwise here, a stroll along the promenade in the sunshine was very pleasant this afternoon, rather windy at the end of the Pier though.

[AndrewG-S]

I am still plugging away too, but skiing this week so not much time and without BRB ODQ etc. Grid is about 3/4 done, got the PDM (in a rather literal way), but struggling to find the quotation with any online searches, even though I think I have a few words. Any helpful suggestions gratefully received...

[novalis]

Hi Andrew G-S!

Assuming you have them or cn make an educated guess at them if you type the first three words of the quotation ( third word is 11 letters not five ) into any search engine/quote finder you should find what wou need. First word is the nine letter title of a George Harrison song.

[dr b]

novalis: Teardrops? Dark Horse? I'm So Tired? Maggie Mae? Love You To?

[novalis]

Apoogies Andrew G-S, Beatles song.
Dr B you're making feel decidely nostalgic ( or very ancient or both )

[Physicsgirl]

I may have retired temporarily to the DC, but only to lick my wounds and have another try tomorrow. Meanwhile, sloe gin and canapes anyone?!

[AndrewG-S]

Thank you, I got it even with the Harrison hint! The 11 letter v 5 letter for the third word was the one giving me problems

[AndrewG-S]

Many thanks, all done now - I can enjoy the holiday without EV hanging over me!!

[Christiana]

Hi all, yes, as you rightly say DocHH, still plugging away though I seem to be making unnecessarily heavy weather of it. Minimal time on it today, as got engrossed in a novel, but worked out the quote earlier on, so will now return to the fray

[novalis]

Hi DocHH!

Hope DD reappears with news of completion.
I'll have a small flutter ( £1 ) on Arsenal tonight. As both my usual ( £5 ) midweek football treble and a liitle £1 bet on goals being scored were successful last night and I don't normally have three winning football bets on the trot it will give Spurs a chance.

[DocHH]

Hello Novalis, I rather suspect that Spurs will need every bit of help they can get tonigh, even if it means you lose your stake, according to the link below they haven't beaten Arsenal for 20 matches and 125 months, then it gets worse!

http://uk.eurosport.y...doors/article/238454/

I read some time back that you didn't know how to insert a link. Hopefully you now know, but I'll have a go at explaining anyway, open the appropriate site, right click the address of that site in the address bar, then click copy, back to the AB message, or any other document that you want to insert the link into, right click where the cursor is pulsating, then click paste! Voila, a space, or even a new line, between the start of the link and the last letter of text is useful, as is a space, or a new line after inserted link!
Will check back tomorrow after result is known!

Herself is leaving work promptly tonight, to make sure she is nowhere near White Hart Lane Station when the marauding hordes start arriving! She will have to turn the TV volume up to drown out the sounds of cheering and disappointment as goals are scored or missed!

[devadolly]

Hello all. No, I am nowhere nearer, well a couple more answers am about to have another 'go' after a rotten day, Defra bureaucracy and the RPA will be the death of me (if I don't commit murder first) If I have to send the corrected maps (that were exactly right in 2005) back agin I shall foam at the mouth, 4 times I have trotted to the PO to send by registered post and 4 times they have come back (weeks later) with a different bit wrong.
I don't hold out any hope and I can feel Mr O's Hell-puzzle dragging its way over my shoulder because I cannot make anything of the hints given, there is no connection in my brain with the Beatles (never liked them anyway, was always a Stones fan) songs and initials.

[DocHH]

Sad you have the problem with Mr O. Just out of interest Devadolly, were you at the Stones Concert in Hyde Park in the late 60's? I enjoyed it tremendously, especiously the supporting groups!

[DocHH]

Especiously, huh, especially is probably better!

[devadolly]

Naturally DocHH - the spelling must be the memory of the illicit substances (ie. too much alcohol)!

[DocHH]

Was too young then for alchol! Butterflies released and the group Family spring to mind! I also saw the Beatles in the late sixties at the Finsbury Park Astoria, the supporting group were the Moody Blues, with Denny Lane as the lead singer! Thank goodness they replaced him!