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It is hard to avoid using modern words and phrases, as Malone says. Surely you have "one-four-seven-oned a phone"?

Malone

Yes I saw the "pass" clue. I have never been passed, passed at, or whatever the expression is, or done any passing, except when I played football. I solved your football clue, I suppose as he was famous it is OK. The times this week was full of old authors, cooks etc, yet had lots of modern stuff. I thought today's was hard but a very good one.

Grunger

I have never had the pleasure of onefoursevenoneing anything, presumabley this is something you do with your mobile phone, though I havent got one.

I enjoyed the Times puzzles this week. I knew Beeton and Kingsley, but I think the memorial for the Coronation Street actor who died recently was unfair.

Ah, I didn't get the Coronation Street connection with Bradley. I knew it had to be headstone, but a quick Google afterwards brought up Bradley Stone, a young boxer who died after a bout in 1994. That would have been unfortunate so I am glad of the actual explanation.

I didn't much like ERR yesterday (Mistake taking rook with queen), as I couldn't think of a sentence in which mistake and err were interchangeable. However, Chambers does say mistake can be an intransitive verb.

Paul

I had forgotten about Bradley Stone and his tragic death. I remember the Alan Bradley death when Coronation Street was an excellent programme.

I agree with you re ERR. Mistake may well be an intransitive verb, but, if I am not mistaken, I am mistaken does not equal any part of ERR.

Grunger,

I am glad to hear 'pass' was a bit of a fail. Yes, the footballer WAS famous, but so were Keegan, Gazza, Pele, Messi, Guulit, Moore, Zidane, Cruyff...

Malone

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Pedants United had slipped to page 3 - come on, folks!

Anyway, Times Daily Quiz (where I score half marks on a good day), 29th January, Q4:

Who did Robert Greene (c 1558-92) call 'an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers'?

Shouldn't that first word be 'whom'? Or has it now become unnecessarily pedantic?

Incidentally I didn't know the quiz answer.

Yes, object should be "Whom".

Presumably it's William Shakespeare? I only guess that from the David Mitchell TV series!

Correct Chris, but like you I only know it from the tv show, written by Ben Elton I think

Talking of TV programmes, on Pointless recently contestants had to supply missing prepositions to book titles. The answer to one was "as".

Now I don't think "as" is ever a preposition and Chambers and the OED agree with me. However, Collins says it is. It just shows you don't always know whom[/] to trust.