Up North?

Once in a while, I am inspired by another blipper and today my blip attempts to emulate what upnorth has been posting of the frozen shores of Lake Superior.

Here then is what the Forth Estuary might have looked like had the temperature ever dropped below zero °C this winter.



Yesterday, I teased you with some crossword clues on my big blipday.

Here is how yesterday's cryptic clues were to be solved:

In all cryptic clues, the definition is either at the start or at the end (never in the middle) and the rest of the clue gives a second way of arriving at the answer. Cryptic crosswords should therefore be easier and you know you are right when the two answers are the same.


6a. Celebration of Communist party with nothing on the 1st of December, 2nd of January and 3rd of May. (3,6,3)

Celebration (definition)
Communist = RED
Party = BALL
Nothing = O
On = ON
1st letter of December= D
2nd letter of January = A
& the 3rd letter of May = Y
Altogether then we get RED BALLOON DAY


24a & 26a. New house and not a number of blips. (3,8)

New (indicates an anagram of)
'house and not' when anagrammed = ONE THOUSAND
A number of blips (definition)
Answer is therefore ONE THOUSAND



4d. Choices for the value of 6a for Mindy's roommate. (4)

In this one, the second way of arriving at the answer is actually another definition.

Choices for the value of 6a (definition 1) The number 1000 may be represented as M (Roman numeral) or K (Greek Kilo-)
Mindy's roommate (definition 2) was MORK in the old TV series 'Mork and Mindy'
= MorK

(The title of yesterday's Blip, "Na-Nu Na-Nu", was a further clue. It was Mork's regular greeting.)

Simples!

Once again a big thank you to everyone who dropped in on my Red Balloon Day yesterday.