Here is the September Thingy
(Now don’t be put off!!!)
The 38 clues give the names of towns
In each historic English county
( Actually there are 39 historic counties
So a final answer will be to identify the missing one.
Two towns have 7 letters, the others 6 or less.
At the end of the clues is a prompt for the initial letter of that county
So you can gradually eliminate options
SO HERE WE GO
1. Instrument. One string off and on (C or B)
2. Chap gets a number right (D or H)
3. Baskervillian? Behead it and the French (B or N)
4. Coals to Newcastle? It includes rock (S or E)
5. Ton and more after a fashion. Right? (O or N)
6. About board piece (D or N)
7. Proper Sid but Les’s first for last (L or G)
8. Comic general (O or E)
9. Beast? Yes, just about (M or H)
10. School game (W or G)
11. Salty verses badly writ (K or S)
12. Sort of rout? About right (C or S)
13. Mother in pain about both hands (H or B)
14. See the dismantled hut (L or M)
15. Spell “MEAT” (O or N)
16. Go SouthEast, then West ,then East to the left (S or Y)
17. Fishing gear at the pub (K or M)
18. King in good fashion (H or W)
19. Sort of eastern nasty (B or L)
20. Three Anglo-French articles (B or D)
21. Noahs second attempt (K or N)
22. Type setter in new order (S or K)
23. Dead? Oh no for starters (O or Y)
24. Strong hold if full (L or G)
25. Funny man and not so funny man(Y or E)
26. Court trainee (D or S)
27. Sweetener? Yes, in short (G or S)
28. Italian chap, see. And thousands round (W or G)
29. Be gone from lookout (E or H)
30. Bank on the last three (C or L)
31. Was once an apostle but the money has gone (W or D)
32. Fruit eater but only pretence (W or S)
33. Reassemble doll and three ‘ewes’ (Y or S)
34. Not 51 going to the west (W or E)
35. Hairy thing weighing a lot (B or C)
36. Selling off crazy seal (C or N)
37. Milk in Geordie town (L or H)
38. Run wild wild and all about little laughter (W or R)
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