E: 31/01? Win a cash prize (loads of effort)

basehex

I'm outta ideas but was looking into famous musicians who had been born/lived in Istanbul that may have a curse attached to them- maybe someone could have a different view on it!

reniannen

I've not got anywhere yet either. The first lines keep bringing me to links about student protests in America during the Vietnam War. Bits of it fit - the protests led to some college principles temporarily closing their college and Nixon eventually negotiated a ceasefire (put out the fire) with North Vietnam in 1973 but it seems there was still fighting (between east and west) even during that period. I can't fit anything in with a specific location and a council meeting there though.

I wonder if the phrase 'in any case' can again refer to NYC, New York, like 'in any clone' did in the one before? Or is that too obvious and designed to mislead us!? I did try googling for a plot in New York and came up with 'the Negro plot' of 1741 where black slaves were accused of arson attacks around the city. Again, I can't connect it with a council meeting to heal the wound...or east and west...or colleges!

@14wrence yes you're right you need to treat each section / couplet as separate clues and each should lead us to a different location until we reach the final answer. As marg2k8 says though sometimes by pooling ideas we've been able to solve bits of the clue further on then go back and link previous clues in afterwards. As you'll see from looking at marg's links it's not necessarily a specific website that's the solution or contains the solution. You can still see the previous clues and solutions from the old website on Google's cached page here. The owner hasn't put them up on the new website yet.

andzk

hi all, the first line of this has me lost too but i was wondering about the site as there seems no where to submit the answer once we do have it is it just me or has everyone else got this too?

Chrysaor

Yes, no obvious place to submit.

I have two ideas on this but both are working backwards from the last lines and don't make much sense when the rest is considered.

One is Shakespeare - 'famed for verse', lived and is buried in Stratford on Avon, and has something like the following on his gravestone; 'cursed be he that moves my bones'.

The second one is Coleridge - famed for verse, lived in Nether Stowey (anagram of 'Northwest Eye') and whose famous character the Ancient Mariner was cursed when he shot an albatross.

On the musings around Joe Strummer, as a Clash fan I see some of it but not the rest and wonder could 'bank a raider's undone' be any kind of a reference to 'Bankrobber' (though it looks more like an anagram)?

SheepAreEvil

Hi I also ended up with Coleridge.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, NETHER STOWEY SOMERSET, THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER.

I agreed with Jacey53 post#5 Joe Strummer born ANKARA from BANK A RAIDERS died in Broomfield Somerset.
then looked up poets, song writer that lived in Somerset although I thought it was Coleridge because he wrote the most famous curse poem. I eventually also worked out the anagram of NETHER STOWEY the only thing that put me in doubt was that they put part of the answer in anagram form in the clue.

Now just have to wait until they sort out the site.

Marg2k8

andzk wrote: »

hi all, the first line of this has me lost too but i was wondering about the site as there seems no where to submit the answer once we do have it is it just me or has everyone else got this too?

The site is undergoing a revamp at the moment and I guess the site owner has not got around to the submit button yet. (The same goes for a lot of the other pages). I do have an email address for him, if anyone wants to contact him (resulting from an issue that I had as discussed on on one of the earlier treasurehuntcash threads). I will try emailing about a submit button and will let you know if I get any response. Please PM me if you would like this email address to also try contacting him.

hopefullyluckyman

I too arrived at coleridge through the anagram of northwest eye. The link for joe strummer is that he died in broomfield in somerset. This is a place renowned for beautiful hillsides far away from ANKARA in the previous verse!

Hope this helps all!