Fao - The Km Players

[seekeerz]

Here are today's shaded clues for you -


56a Metallic colour of the postboxes commemorating British and Irish winners of the London 2012 Olympics [4]

2d Type of plant studies or cultivated by a dendrologist, arborist or silviculturist [4]

36d Material used to make hats/baskets [5]

55d Roped enclosure used for boxing [4]

[1ozzy]

Gold
Tree
Straw
Ring

[twix123]

Thanks Steff and good evening.

56a. Gold

2d. Tree

36d. Straw

55d. Ring

[Buenchico]

Blue
Tree
Straw
Ring

[tonyav]

Hi all.
Well done, 1ozzy ( is this a fix ) ;-)

[Buenchico]

Oops!

You can tell that I'm more interested in cricket than athletics. It was the Cricket World Cup which saw us getting blue pillar boxes!

[Buenchico]

There's definitely some sort of fix going on, Tony. I saw Steff's post appear in 'Latest Posts' and clicked on it immediately but my browser then froze for a couple of minutes, leaving me unable to post (or to check my answers first).

I reckon it's some sort of conspiracy from Down Under ;-)

[tonyav]

Yeah, all c'us the ashes I recon, Chris ;-)

[tonyav]

Hi twix, have you been down the pub tonight.

[seekeerz]

mine went out in sympathy too, Chris, and naturally I put blue as well, comes of not reading the whole question ...duh !!

[twix123]

Hi all. I answered as quickly as I could, but I reckon that 1ozzy living a lot closer to Steff than us poor old Brits, who are thousands of miles away, gains an advantage of a smaller time lag, especially when the distance to the orbiting satellites is taken into consideration !!! ;-)

[1ozzy]

Oops, busted again.

Can't transport me this time ;-)

[twix123]

Hi Tony. Of course I have ! Especially as we were welcoming back one of our pals who has just returned from his normal 2 1/2 month summer break in Ireland, and is now off to Portugal next week for a couple of weeks R & R.

[1ozzy]

Excuses, excuses ;-/

Our electronic blips have to travel a long long way and need translating.

[tonyav]

I reckon that 1ozzy living a lot closer to Steff than us poor old Brits, who are thousands of miles away, gains an advantage of a smaller time lag,

Mmmmmm, sounds reasonable to me ;-)

Sounds like you had a great night then, twix ( Hang on !, RR after Ireland must have been the Guinness ).