MM Links July 2012 Week 2

rockfordill | 08:45 Sat 14th Jul 2012 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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Last week I alluded to the Wey & Arun Canal so I thought it appropriate to give a little more background to this, I hope, worthy cause. The Canal was thought about and planned in the very early 1800s with the specific purpose of helping the British troops fighting the French in the Napoleonic Wars. It was designed to carry war materiel and bullion from Woolwich Arsenal up the Thames to Weybridge, down the Wey Navigation to just south of Guildford, then down the Wey & Arun to join the River Arun, west at Ford to the Chichester canal and harbour and thence straight across to France. This all was intended to avoid the hazardous circum-navigation of the Kent foreland and the Goodwin sands and escape any French privateers in that area.

The sad thing was that it opened in 1816 just a few months after Waterloo thus its raison d'etre disappeared before it opened! It had a sketchy early life but it was used for one very important event - carrying 20 tons of Rothschild gold from Paris up the canal to the Thames and down to London to save, in the nick of time, The Bank of England.

It had taken three hundred Irish Navigators three years to build using just spades and wheelbarrows. The Trust today has been going for about 30 years and so far we have about 4 miles of navigable waterway! Our biggest needs are water and money. The former is certainly no problem this year - the latter we keep working away at - thus my work as crewman on the charter boats we run to raise money.

Next week I want to go back to my first sporting interest - archery. This weeks link words will lead the way.

i Prize Cryptic Crossword No 446

GK CROSSWORD 14 JULY

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According to normal practice, for the everyday running of MM, I shall follow this rule on word length, in that each of my pre-selected link words contains at least four letters and at most eight letters. Stray outside this range and you will be wasting one of your attempts!

Each of the selected link words may go in front of, or behind my challenge word to make a new longer word or to make a well-known phrase or saying. The combination will never be a person's name.

The competition will officially close on Sunday Evening at 7.00pm, when gen2 will declare my pre-selected words and then apply the same rules for awarding points that have been applied during all MM Link Games in the past. My set of four words to have their links predicted should appear below at 9.00am.

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I, 'King John II' challenge you to predict my set of four links to go with my four challenge words:-

WATER
BOAT
ARROW
BOW

Good Luck.