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Here are today’s shaded clues for you -
21a. Colour named after the dianthus, a flower used by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet to symbolise the epitome of perfection (4)
36a. A pomaceous orchard fruit pressed for cider etc (5)
56a Byname of John II, the French king also known as Jean le Bon. (4)
59a. A mixture of red and yellow, complimentary of blue. (6)
21a. Colour named after the dianthus, a flower used by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet to symbolise the epitome of perfection (4)
36a. A pomaceous orchard fruit pressed for cider etc (5)
56a Byname of John II, the French king also known as Jean le Bon. (4)
59a. A mixture of red and yellow, complimentary of blue. (6)
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Thanks Steff and good evening all. 21a. Pink 36a. Apple 56a. Good 59a. Orange
01:13 Sat 14th Jan 2023
Well I'm certainly confused!
From a gardening perspective, 'pink' is clearly right for 21a:
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However it definitely doesn't fit from a literary perspective! Quote:
"Shakespeare uses “pink” four times in his works: in The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1590-1591) to describe a pair of shoes that are un-pinked (undecorated) in the heel (4.1.119); in Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595) for wordplay over Pink the flower and courtesy (2.1.54-55); in Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606) where reference to Bacchus (the God of wine) with “pink eyen” embellishes a drunken scene and mirrors, perhaps, the squinting eyes of inebriated revellers (2.7.110-11); and in All Is True (Henry VIII), written with John Fletcher (c. 1613), to describe a “pinked porringer”, i.e. a hat decorated with pinks, worn by a haberdasher’s wife (5.2.35-38). None of these references refer to ‘pink the colour’ because this colour term is not generally used as an adjective until at least the middle of the 17th century and, as a sole colour term, must wait for the Restoration of 1660."
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From a gardening perspective, 'pink' is clearly right for 21a:
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However it definitely doesn't fit from a literary perspective! Quote:
"Shakespeare uses “pink” four times in his works: in The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1590-1591) to describe a pair of shoes that are un-pinked (undecorated) in the heel (4.1.119); in Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595) for wordplay over Pink the flower and courtesy (2.1.54-55); in Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606) where reference to Bacchus (the God of wine) with “pink eyen” embellishes a drunken scene and mirrors, perhaps, the squinting eyes of inebriated revellers (2.7.110-11); and in All Is True (Henry VIII), written with John Fletcher (c. 1613), to describe a “pinked porringer”, i.e. a hat decorated with pinks, worn by a haberdasher’s wife (5.2.35-38). None of these references refer to ‘pink the colour’ because this colour term is not generally used as an adjective until at least the middle of the 17th century and, as a sole colour term, must wait for the Restoration of 1660."
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The 'literary' answer to 21a, rather than the gardening one, must surely be 'rose':
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title"
[Juliet, Act II, Scene II, Romeo and Juliet]
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title"
[Juliet, Act II, Scene II, Romeo and Juliet]
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