Procol Harum

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the Pale

Christmas Conundrums 2000

Treasure trove !

Over the twelve days of Christmas 2000 you collected thirteen alphabetical letters, being the initials of various places one had to visit in the (adapted!) pages of 'Beyond the Pale' as part of our Christmas Treasure Hunt.

Those thirteen letters (see below) spelt 'Men at Internet', and re-arranging them gave rise to 'Entertainment', a word that occurs just once in the Procol oeuvre, preceded by the word 'unique' … which was the answer. If you had been in any doubt, the obsessive use of the word 'unique' on all the puzzle pages should have given you something of a confirmation!

Congratulations to the eleven winners, and commiserations to many whose answers came in later … we had all the winners within the first hour. Particular thanks to those who kindly took the trouble to write in saying they'd enjoyed the fun, or found it 'devilishly ingenious'.

Remember … only 353 days or so to wait before it all starts again.

December 25	The question was here : starting here then here
Manchester	What’s the initial letter of the name of the British city where Procol Harum will play with the Hallé Orchestra in 2001?	M
December 26	The question was here : clues were here then here
Edmonton	What’s the initial letter of the name of the Canadian university-town where Procol Harum recorded their Live album in 1971?	E
December 27	The question was here: clues were here then here then here
New York	What’s the initial letter of the name of the large, well-known American city where Procol Harum played on 15 May 1977 ?	N
December 28	The question was here: clues were here then here
Aigle	What’s the first letter of the name of the region of Switzerland where Gary Brooker's wife Franky originally came from?	A
December 29	The question was here: clues were here then here
Tavistock	What’s the initial letter of the name of the town in Devon, England, where Procol Harum, including Royer and Harrison, played on 16 June 1967 ?	T
December 30	The question was here: clues were here then here
Ipswich	What’s the initial letter of the name of the town where the Paramounts were scheduled to play on 23 February 1965 ?	I
December 31	The question was here: clues were here then here
Nottingham	What’s the initial letter of the name of the town in England where Procol Harum played in 1995 to seventy people, before going off for a curry ?	N
January 1	The question was here: clues were here then here
Toronto	What’s the initial letter of the name of the Canadian city where Procol Harum's last 1970s gig was scheduled but never played ?	T
January 2	The question was here: clues were here then here then here
Edinburgh	What’s the initial letter of the name of the famous Scottish city where Gary Brooker got the words of AWSoP wrong in February 1977 ?	E
January 3	The question was here: clues were here then here then here
Rome	What’s the initial letter of the name of the famous Italian city mentioned on all the *asterisked * pages you visited on today's treasure trail ?	R
January 4	The question was here: clues were here then here
New Zealand	What’s the initial letter of the name of the country where Procol Harum were scheduled to play on 14 and 15 September 1973?	N
January 5	The question was here: clues were here then here
European Tour	What are the two (2) initial letters of the brief overseas excursion Procol Harum undertook in October 1971 between their gigs at Leicester University and Salford University ?	ET
The double-letter in the last dose may seem clumsy, but hardened puzzle-fiends will realize that I used a 13-letter word to forestall pre-emptive guess-work based on surveys of all the 12-letter words in the Procol canon.

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