I enjoyed remembering laughing at Tommy Cooper, but also pondering the many existential issues raised by Faiton77’s “Essence of life? Zen? Or tit for tat?” Once associated with Jutland, which gives it the same root as those Jutes who came here alongside the Angles and Saxons: reader, how would you clue YAWL? Cluing competition In the meantime, the subject of our next challenge is another kind of boat. This often seems to be the way: in fact, have any of you ever read a fun etymology that turns out to be true? And so however plausible the etymology, the anecdote, Oxford concludes, “looks like an invention”. The problem is that it’s a Scottish word and there’s no evidence of anyone having taken it to New England around 1713. Next, is “scoon” a verb? Yes it is: it describes what a stone does if you manage to make it skip across the water.
First, does the word come from Gloucester, Massachusetts? Yes: it looks like no one called a fore-and-aft rigged vessel a schooner before those people did. So, the lexicographers have gone to work. When the first schooner was being launched (at Gloucester, Massachusetts, about 1713), a bystander exclaimed: ‘Oh, how she scoons!’ The builder, Captain Andrew Robinson, replied, ‘A scooner let her be!’ and the word at once came into use as the name of the new type of vessel. And the Oxford English Dictionary mentions a charming origin story: The word may look German, but it’s American, from the early 18th century (like the ship itself). That tale is more satisfying – for a while. Is the other kind of schooner – the kind you might fill with a pilsner – named after the ship? No one knows. … where you need to ignore the hyphen before you can see the SCHOONER.
#Sail forth game series
The same day, we had a puzzle from Anto in the quiptic, the Guardian’s series “for beginners and those in a hurry” containing this clue …ġ6dShip requires check-in before this (8) Last week we got to know Anto in our Meet the Setter series. We can now expand on the answer: they’ve written Word Salad, a book about cryptics: more at their online home Out of Left Field. Last year we caught up with American cryptic setters Joshua Kosman and Henri Picciotto and asked how they’d kept things going in pandemic times.
… in a clue for ASIDE FROM which could not be more 2021. … and possibly, per your INTUITION, evocative of how 2021 may also end. Here’s a clue from Picaroon that’s evocative of an aspect of home life for many as the year began …
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