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Christmas Quizzes 2018–2019

Solution of the Day : 2 January



9 L


Find an obscure song – put forward by Procol Harum for an album, but rejected in Miami by their producers – whose title (excluding spaces) appears to contain the word ‘calf’; the last word of this rejected song’s title is also the first word of the title of another missing song, rejected from the same album by the same producers at the same time … and that’s the title you’re seeking.

Easy enough to get from Musical Fish to ...

Fishdinnerfortwo
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9 x f

 


9
O


Our late friend, whose family many fans have been supporting by clicking here, took his cognomen or nickname from the opening half-dozen letters of this Procol Harum song-title.

Surely the easiest clue in the set

Oneeyeonthefuture
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15 x o
 


9
T


Merely one PH album-track features a drummer whose full initials form an English word longer than the name of the non-English town where he was born.

HAG Spinetti was born at Cwm

Thetruthwontfadeaway
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6 x m
 

The letter-pairs started in positions 6, 9 and 15 in each song-title, and were therefore in, er, wo, eo, th, ur, ut, wo, de

The one letter-pair that appears twice is 'wo'


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